Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche

The Piper PA-30 and PA-39 Twin Comanche was a twin-engine development of the PA-24 Comanche single-engine aircraft produced by Piper. As with the Comanche, a number of engine options were available, the base 180-hp version typically being used as a twin-engine trainer, with the 260-hp version being used for personal transport. A version with turbocharged engines for higher altitude flight was also developed, and the PA-39 was a version with counter-rotating engines (to ease engine-out operations). As the Twin Comanche was produced on the same production line as its single-engine cousin, production ceased when the production line was wiped out in a flood in the early 1960s, and Piper chose instead to focus on its equally popular 140/180 and Cherokee line, eventually giving birth to the twin-engine, highly popular Seneca.

Specifications (PA-30-160 Twin Comanche)

General Characteristics