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Piper Aircraft, Inc. sold a fleet of six Piper Seminole multi-engine piston-powered advanced training aircraft to Airline Transport Professionals (ATP), a nationwide fi rm specializing in airline pilot training and pilot career development. The airplanes were delivered to ATP in December 2010.
Published in Piper Take Flight Newsletter, 1st Quarter 2011
Reprinted with permission.
Piper and ATP jointly made the announcement at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s Aviation Summit 2010, held in Long Beach, California this year. Both companies are exhibiting at the annual gathering.
“The Piper Seminole has proven itself in hundreds of thousands of hours of flight school training around the world,” says Piper Executive Vice President Randy Groom. “ATP students admire the airplane for its ability to help them learn advanced flight training maneuvers and procedures while the instructors appreciate the Piper Seminole's ability to teach these lessons in a safe and forgiving manner.”
ATP Vice President of Flight Operations Jim Koziarski says “ATP chose the Piper Seminole because of its dispatch reliability, compatibility with our existing fl eet, and, of course, ATP’s commitment to providing high-quality multi-engine fl ight training and experience to pilots of all certifi cation levels.”
With the purchase, ATP will operate a whopping 87 Piper Seminoles in its training fleet. The company also operates 50 Cessna 172s, f ve Diamond DA40s and a CitationJet. The new Piper Seminoles are powered by two Lycoming O-360-A1H6 engines each generating 180 hp, with a 2,000-hour time between overhaul
In 1984, ATP pioneered cost-efficient, accelerated, multi-engine flight training with an emphasis on pilot career development. Today, ATP’s Airline Training Programs prepare graduates for airline pilot and corporate pilot careers with nationwide flight experience in the largest, multiengine training fleet. Advanced jet training transitions these pilots from light twins to modern regional jets in CRJ-200 flight training devices. With thousands of graduates who have completed airline training on time and on budget, airlines come to ATP first to meet their demand for pilots. ATP flies over 6,000 hours to provide more than 300 FAA pilot certifications each month at 24 locations nationwide.
