Piper PA-25 Pawnee

Aircraft Information
> Aircraft Make: Piper. Model: PA-25. Nickname: Pawnee
> Aircraft Mil Civ Description: Airplane SE Piston
> FAA Category and Class: Airplane Single Engine Land
> Engine Description: single piston

Aircraft Experience
> As of: 11/5/2024
> Number of Hours Flown: 142
> Number of Times Flown: 65
> Other Aircraft Models Associated: none

First Flown Information
> Sequence First Flown: 178
> Date First Flown: 3/28/2018
> Location First Flown: Arlington, WA Airport (KAWO)
> Who and/or What Organization First Flown With: Evergreen Soaring.

Recollections: The Pawnee or, as I explain it, an “upside down cub”.  The wings, struts and tail are (at least in design, possibly modified internally) all the same as a Piper Super Cub, just (in the case of the wings and struts) on the bottom instead of the top.

All of my flying in the Pawnee has been as the result of towing gliders.  The Pawnee is my favorite towplane, it’s powerful (compared to cub) and fun to fly.  Along with the A-10 and the Schweizer 1-26, this is the only airplane I’ve solo’d on my first flight in it. 

I’ve flown the Pawnee 64 times but, in those flights, have done 468 tows.  I towed for 3 glider clubs in WA and OR and met some of the finest people you could know, glider pilots and tow pilots both.  Tow pilots including Jim, Ron, Phil, Bruce, Linda, and Frank.