Piper PA-15 Vagabond
PA-15 & PA-17 Vagabond | |
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PA-17 Vagabond | |
Role | Personal and training aircraft |
National origin | USA |
Manufacturer | Piper Aircraft |
First flight | 1948 (PA-15) |
Introduction | 1948 (PA-15) 1949 (PA-17)[1] |
Number built | 601 |
Developed from | Piper J-3 Cub |
The Piper PA-15 Vagabond and PA-17 Vagabond are both two-seat, high-wing, conventional gear light aircraft that were designed for personal use and for flight training and built by Piper Aircraft starting in 1948.[1][2]
Development
The PA-15 was the first post-
The prototype PA-15 made its first flight on 3 November 1947, with deliveries of production aircraft beginning in January 1948.[4]
Vagabonds used a new fuselage with side-by-side seating for two instead of the Cub's tandem seating.[2]
The PA-17 Vagabond version features dual controls, enabling it to be used for pilot training. It has a bungee cord shock-absorbed landing gear (solid gear on the PA-15), and a 65 hp (48 kW)
The Vagabond was followed by the
Operational history
In March 2018 there were still 167 PA-15s[6] and 101 PA-17s[7] registered in the USA.
There were 13 PA-15s and 12 PA-17s registered in Canada in March 2018.[8]
Variants
- PA-15 Vagabond
- Side-by-side two-seater powered by one 65 hp (48 kW) Lycoming O-145 engine.[9] 387 built, plus one converted from a PA-17.[10]
- PA-17 Vagabond
- Also known as the Vagabond Trainer a variant of the PA-15 with dual-controls, shock-cord suspension and powered by one 65 hp (48 kW) Continental A-65-8 engine.[4]214 built.
Specifications (PA-15)
Data from 1978 Aircraft Directory[1][11][5]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 18 ft 8 in (5.69 m)
- Wingspan: 29 ft 3+1⁄8 in (8.92 m)
- Height: 6 ft (1.8 m)
- Wing area: 147.5 sq ft (13.70 m2)
- Airfoil: USA 35B[12]
- Empty weight: 630 lb (286 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,100 lb (499 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 12 U.S. gallons (45 L; 10.0 imp gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-145 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 65 hp (48 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 100 mph (160 km/h, 87 kn)
- Cruise speed: 90 mph (140 km/h, 78 kn)
- Stall speed: 45 mph (72 km/h, 39 kn)
- Range: 250 mi (400 km, 220 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
- Absolute ceiling: 11,500 ft (3,505 m)
- Rate of climb: 510 ft/min (2.6 m/s)
- Wing loading: 7.5 lb/sq ft (37 kg/m2)
- Power/mass: 0.0595 hp/lb (0.0978 kW/kg)
- Take-off run: 900 ft (274 m)
- Landing run: 300 ft (91 m)
See also
- 1948 in aviation (first flight)
Related development:
- Piper Pacer
Comparable aircraft:
References
- ^ ISBN 0-918312-00-0
- ^ ISBN 0-395-62888-1
- ^ "The Vagabond Story". Sport Aviation. January 1961.
- ^ a b Archive 1993 No. 4, p. 93
- ^ a b "Service Memo No. 49" (PDF). Univair. Piper Aircraft. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ Federal Aviation Administration (March 2018). "FAA REGISTRY - Make / Model Inquiry Results - PA-15". Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Federal Aviation Administration (March 2018). "FAA REGISTRY - Make / Model Inquiry Results - PA-17". Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Transport Canada (March 2018). "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (File download link)". Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Bridgman 1948, p. 311c.
- ^ Archive 1994 No. 3, p. 74.
- ^ Bridgman, Leonard, ed. (1949). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1949-50. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. pp. 268c–269c.
- ^ Lednicer, David. "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". m-selig.ae.illinois.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- "Aircraft Production List: 6: The Piper Vagabond: Part One". Archive. No. 4. ISSN 0262-4923.
- "Aircraft Production List: 6: The Piper Vagabond: Part Four". Archive. No. 3. ISSN 0262-4923.
- Bridgman, Leonard, ed. (1948). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1948. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
External links
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