{"id":9356,"date":"2017-08-05T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2017-08-05T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:47:17","slug":"und-continues-to-increase-piper-trainer-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/und-continues-to-increase-piper-trainer-fleet\/%20","title":{"rendered":"UND Continues to Increase Piper Trainer Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piper Aircraft, Inc. will complete delivery of UND&#8217;s trainer order for 2017 this month (August). The order received from the University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences for 2017 is for a total of 20 aircraft including 16 Archer TXs and 4 Seminoles which completed delivery earlier this month. The 2017 order is part of an eight year fleet replacement contract that was signed in April of 2016 for a total of 80 Archer TXs and 20 Piper Seminoles. Since the signing of the contract, UND has taken delivery of 32 Piper trainers &#8211; 24 Archers and 8 Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Piper Aircraft is proud to continue to partner with the University of North Dakota in producing world-class professional pilots.&#8221; said Simon Caldecott, President and CEO of Piper Aircraft. &#8220;The progressive pilot training curriculum offered by UND combined with the advanced Piper training aircraft are ideally crafted to meet the airline industry&#8217;s growing demand for well-trained pilots with exceptional aviation skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Piper trainers that we are adding to our fleet are equipped with state-of-the-art Garmin G1000 NXi avionics, which offer faster processing power, wireless cockpit connectivity, and a variety of other features that help improve situational awareness and make learning in the cockpit more efficient.&#8221; said Paul Lindseth, Dean of the Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piper Aircraft, Inc. will complete delivery of UND&#8217;s trainer order for 2017 this month (August). The order received from the University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences for 2017 is for a total of 20 aircraft including 16 Archer TXs and 4 Seminoles which completed delivery earlier this month. The 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/UND.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}