Airtest- Piper T.1040

Piper’s new T1040 – factory-designated the PA-31T3 – is Just about the ultimate in single pilot commuter types, as far as the Australian market is concerned. . .

Basically a mix of Chieftain fuselage, Cheyenne IIXL nose and undercarriage, and engine nacelles and baggage lockers of the Cheyenne 111, the workmanlike and undeniably efficient T1040 represents one of the most formidable entrants into the commuter market ‘down under’, even in the middle of a global recession.

Ansett General Aviation, an Australian distributors for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, has gone in for a hard sell with the T1040, pointing out that it markets for less than half the price of a Beechcraft C99.

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