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Piper Aviation Museum
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The museum in October 2009
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Established 1980s
Location Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Type Aviation museum
Founder
  • Calvin Arter
  • Bob Edmonson
  • Genny Edmonson
  • William Piper, Jr.

The Piper Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at the William T. Piper Memorial Airport in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. It is focused on the history of the Piper Aircraft Corporation.

History

Originally founded in the 1980s as a part of the Lock Haven Heisey Museum, for the first ten years the museum existed in the back of a tractor trailer. The museum purchased the former Piper Aircraft engineering building in 1997.

The museum opened additional exhibit space in 2022.

Aircraft on display

  • Piper J2 Cub
  • Piper J3C-65 Cub
  • Piper J3C-65 Cub
  • Piper J4A Cub Coupe
  • Piper PA-8 Skycycle – replica
  • Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser
  • Piper PA-15 Vagabond
  • Piper PA-16 Clipper
  • Piper PA-22-135 Tri-Pacer
  • Piper PA-22-150 Tri-Pacer
  • Piper PA-22-160 Tri-Pacer
  • Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
  • Piper PA-24 Comanche
  • Piper PA-25 Pawnee
  • Piper PA-29 Papoose
  • Piper PA-31P-350 Mojave – In storage
  • Piper PA-31T Cheyenne – In storage
  • Piper PA-38 Tomahawk
  • Piper PA-41P Aztec
  • Piper PT-1
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