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The PC-6 is a single engine, high wing, tail wheel aircraft with a characteristic non-swept vertical tail and uniquely shaped cabin windows: they look like two parts of an oval. It comes with many different engines, piston and turbine.
The Pilatus PC-7 was one of the first turboprop powered training aircraft, and the starting point of a whole family of Pilatus turboprop trainers, like the PC-9 and PC-21. Other manufacturers have since developed similar aircraft. The basic PC-7 is recognised best by the large, nearly single piece canopy.
The Pilatus PC-9 is a developement of the PC-7, with as main external change the two-piece canopy with the back seat placed higher than the front seat. The wings have no dihedral close to the fuselage; only the outer wings have dihedral.
Piper Cub
The Piper Cub has a narrow fuselage with flat side windows, of which the last one has a (reversed) D shape. Up front is a piston engine with four exposed cylinder heads. Typical are the covered triangular main landing gear struts and triangular tube structure of the wing struts, with the struts being attached to the fuselage at the back of the gear struts.
Piper PA-18 Super Cub
This development of the famous Piper Cub has an enclosed boxer engine in the nose, so the PA-18 looks wider than the predecessor. Also it has trailing edge flaps as novelty. What remains are the covered triangular main landing gear struts and triangular tube structure of the wing struts.
Piper PA-23 Apache/Aztec
Like the PA-30 Twin Comanche the PA-23 has windows with rather sharp corners. The top of the cabin windows curved down at the last windows. Its main gear retracts forward in the nacelles.
Piper PA-24 Comanche
The PA-24 has a very conventional configuration. Typical are a retractable landing gear (all single wheels), small nose gear doors and narrow window frames, resulting in windows with sharper corners than similar aircraft like the PA-28 and PA-32. Tip tanks are optional.
Piper PA-28/PA-32
These are the most popular low wing general aviation aircraft, with a very conventional configuration. The number of cabin windows may differ per specific version, and the landing gear may be fixed or retractable, but the general appearance is the same.
Piper PA-30/PA-39 Twin Comanche
The twin development of the Comanche has similar features for recognition: a retractable landing gear (with the main gear retracting sideward in the wings) and narrow window frames, resulting in windows with sharper corners than similar aircraft like the PA-34 and Beechcraft Baron.
Piper's entry in the ‘cabin class’ piston twins was the Piper PA-31, from which a whole family was developed with piston and turboprop engines. Its large rectangular cabin windows with rounded make it easy to distinguish from similar types in this class.