School Has Ordered An Additional 10 Airplanes For Its Fleet

Piper Aircraft, Inc.  has announced today an order for 10 additional Archer TXs from ATP Flight School. The order comes as part of an original agreement made in April of 2013 for up to 100 aircraft to the flight school.

ATP, America’s largest private flight school, specializes in airline pilot training and pilot career development. The school initially agreed to purchase a fleet of 15 Piper Archer TX single-engine, piston-powered advanced training aircraft for delivery in late 2013; however, as ATP’s training program grew, the school expanded its agreement to include an option for 85 additional Archers, bringing the total to 100 single engine trainers.

"For the past five years we have been proud to support the team at ATP with training aircraft. ATP’s confidence in Piper and our trainer products is a testament to the robust and reliable training equipment that we manufacture but also an indication of the growing pilot training activity,” said Piper President and CEO Simon Caldecott. “Our training aircraft sales continue to grow given the availability of a complete trainer product line up as well as competitive operating costs.”  
 
"ATP continues to expand as one of the largest private training organizations in the United States and has been transitioning our fleet to Piper products given their proven reliability, technological flexibility in cockpit avionics and instrumentation, as well as the unsurpassed operational economy,” said ATP Vice President Justin Dennis. “We look forward to continuing to integrate these new Piper Archer TXs into our curriculum.”

As their need for more single-engine Piper training aircraft increases, ATP has been exercising its option to take additional Archers. The school continues to transition to a predominately Piper training aircraft fleet and will take delivery of its  82nd Archer next month - its 150th Piper trainer. This aircraft (serial number 900) is particularly significant as it marks the 300th airplane to join the ATP fleet and is Piper Aircraft’s  900th Archer III to be manufactured.  

While all of the new ATP airplanes under the agreement with Piper have been equipped with Garmin G500 glass cockpit avionics suites, the latest order includes an option for G1000 NXi equipped aircraft with GFC 700 autopilot.  

(Source: Piper news release. Image provided)

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