Name this airplane

[RyanB]

 

[Skyrys62]

I'd name it Happy.
Just because it looks like a happy little airplane.
Or maybe Happy Lee...so you could always be flying Happy Lee.

 

[pacer dave]

Piper Skycycle?

 

[ateamer]

It’s the Piper that was made from a Corsair drop tank. I forget the model name, might have been the Papoose.

 

[RyanB]

Piper Skycycle?

you win thanks for playing. Piper pa-8

 

[EdFred]

Looks like a good name for it would be Rhonda.

 

[jimhorner]

Pippi Longstocking

 

[Bill]

Oh my, the rare and elusive Piper Gnat! Such a fine barn find, most have been swatted by now.

 

[MtPJimB]

Piper Skycycle?

Now, did you know that, or did you google the N-number, which is what I did?

 

[jsstevens]

Let’s call it Steve!

 

[pacer dave]

Now, did you know that, or did you google the N-number, which is what I did?

Saw an article on it in Sport Aviation awhile back. Someone built a replica of it. pretty cool.

 

[Pilawt]

It’s the Piper that was made from a Corsair drop tank. I forget the model name, might have been the Papoose.

The PA-29 Papoose came years later. It was a two-seater prototype of the early 1960s, intended to replace the Colt as the company's trainer competition against the C-150. The PA-29 airframe was made of a composite material that turned out to be not ready for prime time - or even direct sunlight. The project was abandoned. Piper's flight school network needed a trainer ASAP, so they stripped down the existing four-seat Cherokee 150 and called it the Cherokee 140.

 

[Pilawt]

Here's another pic of the PA-8 Skycycle. It was not a large airplane ...

 

[IK04]

Looks like an updated Flivver...