@ San Carlos, CA
September 2024
Hiding amongst the transient aircraft at San Carlos Airport was this Piper Apache. The Apache was the first twin-engined Piper aircraft, and was developed from a proposed “Twin Stinson” design, inherited when Piper bought the Stinson Division of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation. Piper Aircraft would manufacture the Apache and a more powerful version, the Aztec, from 1952-1981. In 1958, the Apache 160 was produced by upgrading the engines to 160 hp; 816 were built. This Apache has undergone a Geronimo conversion marketed in the 1960’s. With a cut-down, squared-off tail, a sleeker nose, dorsal fin, and more powerful engines, the Geronimo offered 25 more mph than the stock Apache.
