This 1976 Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six Is a User-Friendly ‘AircraftForSale’ Top Pick

Today’s Top Pick is a 1976 Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six.

In general aviation, there are many ways to improve your flying life by acquiring your own aircraft, upgrading the one you already own, or stepping up to a larger, faster, or better-equipped model.

For some pilots, finding an airplane that is as close to a flying SUV as possible is the ultimate goal. Piper had identified this market segment by the mid-1960s, when it introduced an enlarged version of its basic PA-28 Cherokee.

While offering more power, extra seats, and a bump up in useful load, the Cherokee Six kept complexity to a minimum with fixed landing gear and an operating routine that most private pilots with limited experience would find familiar. During the 1970s the model gave rise to the Lance, and later the Saratoga, which featured retractable landing gear and increasingly complex systems.

But the basic Six remained popular among pilots who sought capability and capacity without complication.   

This 1976 Cherokee Six has 4,014 hours on the airframe and 854 hours since overhaul on its Lycoming IO-540 K1A5 engine.

The aircraft’s IFR panel includes a Garmin GTN 625 GPS with localizer and glideslope, Garmin GNS 430 GPS/nav/com, GTR 225 com radio, GTX 345R transponder with ADS-B In and Out, TruTrak Aerocruze 100 autopilot, Apollo GPS 2001, Insight Instruments GEM 602 engine monitor, King KX 55 nav/com with glideslope, King KN 64 DME, and King KR 86 ADF. 

Pilots seeking the GA equivalent of a large station wagon or sport utility vehicle with plenty of power should consider this 1976 Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six, which is available for $219,000 on AircraftForSale.

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