The contract consists of an preliminary order for 145 plane, consisting of each Archers and Seminoles
Piper Plane and the College of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard College of Aerospace Sciences (UND Aerospace) have signed Piper’s largest ever home order for coaching plane. The deal is valued at roughly $155m and represents a major fleet improve settlement for the College of North Dakota.
The contract consists of an preliminary order of 145 plane, comprised of each the PA-28 Archer TX and Seminole, over an eight-year time period starting in 2027, with the potential for as much as 188 plane in complete, by an elective two-year extension into 2036. This settlement surpasses UND’s 2016 order for 112 plane, concluding in 2026.
“The Piper Archer TX and Seminole are an ideal match for UND Aerospace. The Piper staff is nice to work with and continues to offer top-notch customer support for our college students and aviation program,” stated Jeremy Roesler, Director of Flight Operations at UND Aerospace. “The plane are reliable and play an enormous half in holding our college students protected in all of their phases of pilot coaching. Indubitably, Piper is the main producer for the industrial pilot coaching group.”
UND Aerospace’s present coaching fleet contains 176 plane and flight simulators and generates round 125,000 flight coaching hours every year at its primary Grand Forks campus in North Dakota, plus an extra 65,000 hours at its Phoenix, Arizona campus.
PHOTO: PIPER AIRCRAFT
