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PA-7 Skycoupe
Role	Light aircraft
Manufacturer	Piper Aircraft
First flight	1944
Number built	1

The Piper PA-7 Skycoupe was a 1940s American two-seat light aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft at Lock Haven. Towards the end of 1944 Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the war. One of these was the PWA-1 Skycoupe (Post War Airplane 1). A prototype was built in 1943, it was a two-seat side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplane with a twin-boom fuselage with a tricycle landing gear. It had a Franklin 4ACG-199-H3 engine driving a pusher propeller. In 1945 it was redesignated the PA-7 Skycoupe but no further examples were built.

[edit] Specifications (PA-7)

General characteristics

Crew: 2
Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in ( m)
Gross weight: 1597 lb ( kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Franklin 4ACG-199-H3, 113 hp ( kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: 110 mph ( km/h)
Range: 400 miles ( km)

[edit] References

Roger W. Peperell and Colin M.Smith, Piper Aircraft and their forerunners, 1987, Air-Britain (Historians), ISBN 0 85130 149 5, Page 47 and 50.