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two-seat light aircraft designed and built by

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. Towards the end of 1944 Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the

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. One of these was the PWA-1 Skycoupe (Post War Airplane 1). A prototype was built in 1943, it was a two-seat side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplane with a twin-boom fuselage with a tricycle landing gear. It had a Franklin 4ACG-199-H3 engine driving a pusher propeller. In 1945 it was redesignated the PA-7 Skycoupe but no further examples were built.

Specifications (PA-7)

References

* Roger W. Peperell and Colin M.Smith, ''Piper Aircraft and their forerunners'', 1987, Air-Britain (Historians), , Page 47 and 50. {{Piper PA-07 Single-engined pusher aircraft 1940s United States civil utility aircraft Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States Low-wing aircraft Twin-boom aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1944