This is the plane i usually fly; N43020. N43020 is a PA28-151 with the RAM 160HP conversion. It is a 1974 model with very nice paint and interior. It is a four place aircraft with an intercom to all seats. It has a useful load of about 890 pounds. It cruises at about 120 mph and has about a 5-6 hour range with full tanks. This aircraft also has wing tip strobes and RMD wing tips with landing lights.
More about the PA28-151 from Wikipedia:
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of aircraft models, the first of which received its type certificate from the FAA in 1960. The series is still being built by Piper Aircraft in 2007. All members of the Piper Cherokee family are all-metal, unpressurized, four-seat, single-engine piston-powered airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. All Cherokees have a single door on the co-pilot side, which is entered by stepping on the wing. The Cherokees are popular trainers. The Cherokee’s main competitors historically have been the Cessna 172, the Grumman American AA-5 series and the Beechcraft Musketeer. Piper has created variations within the Cherokee family by installing engines ranging from 140 to 300 horsepower, providing turbo charging, offering fixed or retractable landing gear, fixed-pitch or constant-speed propellers, and stretching the fuselage to accommodate 6 people. At the time of the Cherokee’s introduction, Piper’s primary single-engine, all-metal aircraft was the Piper PA-24 Comanche, a larger, faster aircraft with retractable landing gear and a constant-speed propeller. Karl Bergey, Fred Weick and John Thorp designed the Cherokee as a less expensive alternative to the Comanche, with lower manufacturing and parts costs (though some later Cherokees also featured retractable gear and a constant-speed propeller), to compete with the Cessna 172. The Cherokee and Comanche lines continued in parallel production serving different market segments for over a decade, until Comanche production was ended in 1972, to be replaced by the Piper PA-32R family. Piper reintroduced the Cherokee 150 in 1974, renaming it the Cherokee Warrior (PA-28-151) and giving it the Archer’s stretched body and a new, semi-tapered wing.
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