Advertisement Comanche 180 Base/used Price: $36,000 Engine make/model: Lyc. While the Comanche is a fine plane, you really need to get a ride in a Bonanza. O-360-A1A Horsepower@altitude: 180@SL Horsepower for takeoff: 180 TBO hrs. The Bo will cost you a few bucks more, but the direct operating costs per mile will be close, perhaps a bit better for the Bo. The crash sparked a fire on the golf course. He did it again a bit later, in a 180 Comanche, Casablanca to El Paso, 6,966.71 miles for a record in a different class. https://www.aviationconsumer.com/aircraftreviews/piper-comanche More Info Tsunami Aircraft Sales, Inc. Home Aviation safety Instead, the Piper Comanche was a thoroughly modern design focused on speed and good looks, and targeting the high-performance piston-single market being tapped by the Beech Bonanza and Cessna 210, among others. A Piper PA-24-250 Comanche sustained a landing gear collapse when landing at Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT/KRUT), Vermont Both occupants were not injured. Piper favoured Lycoming engines and Lycoming didn’t make one that powerful! On August 30, 2020, about 1430 central daylight time, a Piper PA-24-250 airplane, N7469P, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Bryan, Texas. Conrad’s first and longest record hop was in a 250 Comanche, from Casablanca to Los Angeles, 7,668.5 statute miles, easily beating the Bonanza record. Today there are exceptions in the safety record picture, with the Piper PA-46 Malibu/Mirage, Cessna pressurized P210 and Aerostar twins on the high side. James R. Ungar, 66, of Yreka, Calif., was killed when his Piper Comanche 250 airplane went down shortly after takeoff under “unknown circumstances” and crashed into a hangar at the airport at about 8:15 a.m., said Ian Gregor, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration. I too, looked seriously at the Comanche, and had a fair amount of time in them, singles and twins, and went for the Bo and never looked back. Ofc. The private pilot and two passengers were fatally injured, and one passenger sustained serious injuries. Finally, the Comanche was never quite as fast as the Bonanza, primarily because the Beechcraft had a 285hp Continental. Until then, the company had built mostly rag-and-tube taildraggers. 1965 Piper Comanche 260, 8050TT, 0 SIRAN, 267 SPOH, KMA-20 AP w/3 Light Markers, (2) GNS-430 WAAS GPS/Com, GTX-327 Xpdr w/Encoder. The Comanche was used for many record-breaking flights. First hitting the market in 1958, the Piper PA-24 Comanche was a radical departure for Piper. Record-breakers. The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche (later PA-39) was designed as a twin-engined variant of the Piper PA-24 Comanche. Several climb records set by Chuck Yeager in the Piper Cheyenne 400LS. : 2000 Fuel type: 80/87 Propeller type/diameter: … Read More "Comanche 180" On the other hand, airplanes like the Cessna 172 and 182 have a lower involvement in … The National Transportation Safety Board says the Piper PA-24 Comanche took off from the Scottsdale Airport at around 8:45 p.m. Minutes later, the plane went down less than a mile away, at the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course.