Skyhawk versus Archer?

Bob Chilcoat wrote:
: 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.

IIRC the Challenger was the stretched Cherokee 180, but still had hershey bar
wings. Don't all the Archers have the taperwings?

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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