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Below check the specific characteristics of the aircraft you are looking for. You can select multiple items for each characteristic. The results will be filtered automatically. 

Piper Cub

The Piper Cub has a narrow fuselage with flat side windows, of which the last one has a (reversed) D shape. Up front is a piston engine with four exposed cylinder heads. Typical are the covered triangular main landing gear struts and triangular tube structure of the wing struts, with the struts being attached to the fuselage at the back of the gear struts.

Piper PA-18 Super Cub

This development of the famous Piper Cub has an enclosed boxer engine in the nose, so the PA-18 looks wider than the predecessor. Also it has trailing edge flaps as novelty. What remains are the covered triangular main landing gear struts and triangular tube structure of the wing struts.

Piper PA-23 Apache/Aztec

Like the PA-30 Twin Comanche the PA-23 has windows with rather sharp corners. The top of the cabin windows curved down at the last windows. Its main gear retracts forward in the nacelles.

Piper PA-24 Comanche

The PA-24 has a very conventional configuration. Typical are a retractable landing gear (all single wheels), small nose gear doors and narrow window frames, resulting in windows with sharper corners than similar aircraft like the PA-28 and PA-32. Tip tanks are optional.

Piper PA-28/PA-32

These are the most popular low wing general aviation aircraft, with a very conventional configuration. The number of cabin windows may differ per specific version, and the landing gear may be fixed or retractable, but the general appearance is the same.

Piper PA-30/PA-39 Twin Comanche

The twin development of the Comanche has similar features for recognition: a retractable landing gear (with the main gear retracting sideward in the wings) and narrow window frames, resulting in windows with sharper corners than similar aircraft like the PA-34 and Beechcraft Baron. 

Piper's entry in the ‘cabin class’ piston twins was the Piper PA-31, from which a whole family was developed with piston and turboprop engines. Its large rectangular cabin windows with rounded make it easy to distinguish from similar types in this class.  

Piper PA-34 Seneca

The Seneca can be regarded as the twin version of the PA-32. Compared to the earlier Twin Comanche it has more rounded (cabin) windows and a more pointed nose. It was built under license by Embraer as EMB810 and PZL-Mielec as M20.

The PA-42 Cheyenne III was initially a non-pressurised PA-31-350 with turboprops, tip tanks and a T-tail. However, the final version was significantly longer (in particular the nose), with a larger vertical tail. The large rectangular cabin windows allow easy distinction from the T-tail Beechcraft King Air models.

The Piper PA-46 is a single engine prop aircraft, that comes in piston and turbo­prop versions. Especially the turboprop variants are similar in appearance as the TBM series. It can be distinguished from them mainly by the larger cabin windows and engine cowling.