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Wingspan: 41 ft 4 in (12.60 m) (including tip tanks).

Specifications (PA-48) ĭata from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982–83 N481PE has been fully restored and is currently at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson Arizona after being displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. In 2014, PA-48 N482PE completed restoration and is on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base. Of the four prototype aircraft produced, two still exist. As in the Pave COIN tests of 1971, the PA-48s were found to perform well in their intended role, but the Air Force again decided not to purchase the aircraft. The two PA-48s were tested during 19 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and Edwards Air Force Base, California. The PA-48 Enforcer was a completely new aircraft. īy the time the PA-48s were completed, they shared less than 10 percent of their structure with the P-51, and were longer and larger.

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Instead, it carried the Piper designation PA-48 and the FAA registration numbers N481PE and N482PE.

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Since the Enforcer was never in the Air Force inventory, it was not given an official military designation and did not receive a serial number. Eventually in the 1979 defense bill $11.9 million was allocated for Piper to build two new prototypes and for the Air Force to perform another flight evaluation.

Air Forceįor another eight years, Piper and Lindsay lobbied Congress to force the Air Force to officially re-evaluate the Enforcer. These aircraft were evaluated by the USAF, but flown only by Piper test pilots.įlight testing and evaluation Piper PA-48 Enforcer in the Research & Development Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. In 1984, with a $US12 million appropriation from Congress, Piper built two new Enforcers, giving the new prototypes the designation PA-48. Although the Enforcer performed well in the 1971–1972 Pave COIN test flown by USAF pilots, Piper failed to secure a USAF contract. Prior to the Pave COIN evaluation, N202PE was lost in a crash off the Florida coast on 12 July 1971 due to flutter caused by a Piper-modified elevator trim tab. One airframe was a single seat (called the PE-1 and FAA registered as N201PE), the other a dual-control aircraft (the PE-2, registered N202PE). In 1971, Piper built two Enforcers by heavily modifying two existing Mustang airframes, fitting them with Lycoming YT55-L-9A turboprop engines along with numerous other significant modifications. Piper was able to lease a Lycoming T55-L-9 engine from the USAF (the engine Lindsay wanted initially) and flew the aircraft some 200+ hours. was closed in 1971 so the founder/owner, David Lindsay, could help continue develop the Enforcer concept with Piper. Seeking a company with mass production capability, the Turbo Mustang III, renamed the ' Enforcer', was sold to Piper Aircraft in late 1970. military nor any foreign operators purchased the Turbo Mustang III. Despite numerous sales attempts to the United States Air Force, neither the U.S. The Turbo Mustang III had radically increased performance, along with an associated increase in payload and decrease in cost of maintenance, and was equipped with Bristol ceramic armor to protect the engine, airframe, and pilot. This privately funded prototype was also intended for the same CAS/ COIN mission that the Mustang II was built for. Cavalier initially mated a Rolls-Royce Dart 510 turboprop to a Mustang II airframe. In 1968, Cavalier Aircraft owner/founder David Lindsay began developing a highly modified version of the Cavalier Mustang for use as a counter-insurgency aircraft. The Enforcer concept was originally created and flown as the Cavalier Mustang by David Lindsay, owner of Cavalier Aircraft, in response to the United States Air Force PAVE COIN program, but Cavalier did not have the manufacturing abilities to mass-produce the Enforcer, so the program was sold to Piper by Lindsay in 1970.ĭesign and development Piper PA-48 Enforcer in USAF trials It is a development of the World War II-era North American P-51 Mustang fighter. The Piper PA-48 Enforcer is an American turboprop-powered light close air support aircraft built by Piper in the 1970s.

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