Our 74 Archer is the first year it was called an "Archer". The year before
it was called the Challenger, but only for that one year. That was the year
they added 5" to the fuselage and changed the name from Cherokee 180 to
acknowledge the change. Don't know why they switched over to Archer the
next year; AFAIK there was no difference in the airplane.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Dave Butler" wrote in message
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Joe wrote:

I think there is only one model year that was both called "Archer" and
"180", 1975. Before that the Cherokee 180 was called something else, not
Archer and after that came the 181 with the tapered wing. This is from
memory.