Piper Enters the Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) Market with the PiperSport www.piper.com The PiperSport is a world-class aircraft offering performance, luxury, and value for money. In this video, Piper insiders offer a first look at the PiperSport – its design, performance, flying characteristics, and features. SEBRING, Fla., Jan. 21, 2010 Piper Aircraft, Inc. announced details and unveiled its all-new PiperSport here today, underscoring its foray into the Light Sport Aviation segment with a world-class aircraft that speaks to Pipers heritage in designing and building seminal, entry-level airplanes while offering features and performance normally found in more expensive, performance aircraft. Piper President & CEO Kevin J. Gould made the announcement during a news conference held here this morning at the Sebring US Sport Aviation Expo 2010. With the PiperSport, Gould said, Piper is entering what is undeniably one of the most exciting market segments in general aviation. This burgeoning segment is becoming vital to our industry and playing an ever-increasing role in developing general aviations next generation of pilots. The PiperSport is an amazing entry-level aircraft that will bring new customers into Piper and lead the way for those customers to step up into more sophisticated and higher performance aircraft within our line over time. Moreover, as the only aircraft manufacturer to have models in every market segment, Piper continues to expand its business model to ensure …
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I like the use of the Sport Cruiser checklist! Still, nice looking plane. Flown the cruiser before and it really is a sweet flying plane. Love the 912 for its cheap maintenance: auto spark plugs, air filter, oil filter…very nice.
Can’t wait untill i get enough money to get sport’s pilot licence and buy this airplane.
Correct, omyc25. SportCruiser is now the PiperSport.
this is just like the sport cruiser
Did you buy it at Sebring? Is that your picture getting the ceremonial keys at the show?
Saw it….Flew it…..Bought it…Cant wait to get it!!!
I love it when they say an entry point aircraft between 120 -140k when I am looking at older Pipers for less then 60. Not many people have 120k of disposable income. Vans RV for 1/2 the cost, heck you could build and RV10 for that and cary 4 real people on FAA people.
hopefully you are sarcastic. This plane is pretty cheap compared to most planes.
@Honechky 130,000 for a new plane? compared to most new planes that are around 150,000 at least
Great news for the SportCruiser-Piper’s backing give this gorgeous a/c a wider audience…hope it won’t lose it’s identity though!
Nice looking plane. Over $130,000 doesn’t sound affordable to me. I better get a job at piper,because if they say that affordable, they most pay better than what I make now.