Piper Tomahawk,PA-38 Standard size CheckMate

[Music] the piper tomahawk ladies and gentlemen this plane is almost never talked about when you talk about trainer aircraft and that's partly because of the stigma that's surrounding the tomahawk which i think a lot of it is not so much of a reality okay if you know the story behind pipers they generally build personal planes for civil aviation um but back in the 70s they tried to get into the trainer market which was dominated by cessna and still is and this was the price this is this is what they came up with okay and the tomahawk has been around since 78 i believe they made they the production version came out in 1978 and this one here in front of me is a 1979 model and guys i personally for whatever reason i have a thing for this beat uh not veto the tea tale i love the look of this thing and for all of you who followed my journey as a student pilot you know i trained a diamond d84