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Piper Celebrates 75th Anniversary At AirVentureAircraftDave WeimanAmong the aircraft Piper displayed at EAA AirVenture 2012 was thetwin-engine turbocharged Piper Seneca V.Piper Aircraft celebrated its 75th Anniversary of the company and itsPiper Cub at EAA AirVenture 2012, Oshkosh, Wis.Dave WeimanDave WeimanSimon Caldecott, President and CEO of PiperAircraft.OSHKOSH, WIS. – To commemoratethe 75th Anniversary of Piper Aircraft,and the plane that made it famous,Piper is celebrating its history all yearlong, and focused on EAA AirVenture2012, July 23-29 in Oshkosh, Wis.Hundreds of Piper Cubs turned theOshkosh flightline into a “field ofyellow” as aviation celebrated the iconicaircraft’s 75th anniversary. Additionally,a Piper J-3 Cub was awarded this yearas the grand prize in the 2012 EAA“Win the Cub” Aircraft Sweepstakes.The EAA Sweepstakes, one of thelongest running airplane giveaways inthe world, annually supports EAA’saviation education programs.Additionally, Piper exhibited itssingle-engine M-Class aircraft lineupand several twin-engine aircraft, alongwith the famed Piper Cub, whichlaunched the company in 1937.Piper displayed the top-of-the-linesingle-engine turboprop Meridianand a single-engine, unpressurizedMatrix; both form the M-Class lineup.Also on display were a twin-engineturbocharged Piper Seneca V, and asingle-engine Piper Archer.Piper also displayed two twinengineSeminoles: one courtesy of theUniversity of North Dakota John D.Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences;the other Seminole – featuring a newair conditioning system from KellyAerospace – was courtesy of RedbirdFlight Simulations, which took deliveryof the airplane at Sun ’n Fun in March.OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2012 MIDWEST FLYER MAGAZINE 41