{"id":139039,"date":"2024-10-12T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/piper-pa-31-navajo-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:00:13","slug":"what-made-the-piper-pa-31-navajo-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139039","title":{"rendered":"What Made The Piper PA-31 Navajo Unique?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piper is one of the most notable general aviation aircraft manufacturers in the world. The Vero Beach, Florida-based company is often considered to be one of the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; of general aviation aircraft manufacturers, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cessna\" >Cessna<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/beechcraft\" >Beechcraft<\/a>. The company was founded by Clarence and Gordon Taylor in 1927, originally called Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company. After Gordon&#8217;s death in 1928, William T. Piper became a large investor in the company and moved the company from New York to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4,000 total aircraft were produced by Piper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1472,5218,1317,416,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-general-aviation","category-piper","category-piston-engine","category-private-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139040,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139039\/revisions\/139040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}