No #5 First manufactured in 1960, the four-seat, all-metal PA-28 Cherokee is still being produced 47 years later, surviving the 1990s bankruptcy and resurrection of the company that first built it. One of the most popular recreational and touring single-engine piston aircraft of the modern era, the Cherokee became a family of models with well over a dozen members. These range from the Cherokee 140 -- a two-seat aircraft with a 150-horsepower engine designed as a primary trainer for flight-school use -- to today's turbocharged PA-28R-200T and the Saratoga II, which has a retractable landing gear. The Cherokee is in use as a recreational and training aircraft throughout the world.
