Aircraft
Piper Announces Fleet Sale to UND
More than 100 flight training aircraft sold
Dr. Bruce Smith, Dean of UND's Jon D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, left, and Piper president and CEO Simon Caldecott were on hand at SNF to announce the school's fleet order for 112 aircraft.
Dr. Bruce Smith, Dean of UND's Jon D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, left, and Piper president and CEO Simon Caldecott were on hand at SNF to announce the school's fleet order for 112 aircraft.

The sales staff at Vero Beach, Fla.-based Piper Aircraft are celebrating at this year’s Sun ’n' Fun airshow in Lakeland, Fla. Today they announced the sale of 112 training aircraft to the UND Aerospace Foundation, which provides aircraft and training services to the University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. Deliveries of single-engine Archer TXs and multi-engine Seminoles will begin in the fourth quarter of 2016 and stretch out across the next eight years, the company told AIN. The contract value is estimated to be at least $40 million, based on today’s pricing of a standard equipped Piper Seminole at $697,000 and the Archer TX, which starts at $345,000.