That landing was pure butter 🧈

First general aviation flight was in one of these. 1hr 15 minutes from Winnipeg to Grand Forks. What an experience for 14 year old many years ago. Just cemented in me i wanted to fly.

Love it. Miss it. Maybe 25 yrs back already, had 5812d out of Grant Miichigan.

I learned the basics in a Tri-Pacer. My Dad had one in the mid-50's. I missed it when he upgraded to a V-35B Bonanza. While in college in the '70's I had a friend with a Colt. Just a Tri-Pacer with a name change. He used to let me fly it. I was his A&P mechanic.

This brings back so, so, many, fond memories!!!!

Thanks for the ride.

Beautiful plane

Great memories learning to fly in the pa 22 with my dad from Allen Airport..now a GM plant! (1964)

Had 5 different tri pacers, converted 2 to 22/20s, good old planes. Eddie Trimmer is the super pacer man in Willow Alaska, 180hp, extended flaps, fuselage, and wings, 2 18 gal tanks each wing, cub tail feathers. They are a monster performer.

Sweet video and a lovely aircraft!

Wooow I made a model of one of these when I was a kid. It was bright yellow with red stripes, nice to see one still flying! 👍

Southbridge MA! Nice video, brought back a lot of memories. Back in the nineties, I was taking lessons at Spencer Airport- Skyhawk 560Z. I will forever remember that time and my first solo (s).

..Loved this short video! Excellent time for a nice puddle-jump flight! You are a lucky young man! Beautiful vintage airplane! My gifts time ever up in a small plane, or any plane, was in a '54 Tri-Pacer. in Oct '55. What an exhilarating experience!! Find for sharing!

Love the curved rear window of the earlier PA22's. I have three, but they're all 56 models and newer. Oh, yeah, they're not the slowest airplane around, but they're not exactly SR71s, either.

Ahhh, one of my favorite maneuvers... turns around a boat 👍😎. Nice edit, thanks for sharing!!

Brought me back to the late 60s when I use to fly around with dad in his tripper. Nice flight bro 👍😎✌

My A&P/IA found a direct replacement for my overhead light dome lens this last annual.

Nice edit! Perfect lighting... and landing. Greased it on.

I also had a 55 tripacer. N2959P. back in 1972, 90 hrs SMOH, new cover and paint. Original interior. I love her. Paid $4000.00 but had to sell her one year later for $4500. I rented airplanes after that for another year. 5 years later I became a helicopter pilot, and retired with 10,000 hrs. never flew fixed wing again. However I missed that trypacer !!

Tripacers have a unique classic beauty to them.

So gas ❗️✈️

I once rode "right seat" in a Tri-Pacer on a flight where we covered exactly 281 "air miles" in exactly 1 hour 55 minutes! Of course we had a bit of help from a tail wind ! So, not actually as "Slow" as you might think! Cheers 🍻 😊

Nice, just found your channel and happy I did. I loved my tri pacer.

My dad had an identical Tri-Pacer he flew out of Michigan in the late 60's. It swallowed a valve over Sudbury Ontario, but got them to the airport safe.

Nice aircraft. Got hooked on flying in one long time ago. Used to fit 4 big guys in it and land on beaches, unprepared runways, virtually anywhere. Still lives on in Australia as serial 22-4510. Was never mine.

I am glad you corrected that!

You are living my dream

Remember these being imported to the UK through my local airfield when I was a youngster. If it still carries its original registration any Piper with a G-AP??? or G-AR??? registration through Kidlington. Happy days.

..Ill keep this short..My very first time up in any airplane was in Oct 1955, when my dad, a corporate pilot flying Twin Beech 18s out of NYC/LaGuardia, borrowed a '54 Tri-Pacer w/ the 135hp 4-cyl Lycoming engine, to fly from N.Y. down here to Philadelphia, MS to visit his relatives on his badly needed vacation! We were pulled out of school for 2 wks. Was,one of the coolest, memorable, educational experiences I ever had! Recall him operating a metal crank in the head panel betw the front seats..he told me that was the elevator trim tab operating crank. Had no rudder pedal toe brakes, but a s-shaped stick lever under the l. side instrument panel, that actuated the little main gear brakes. I was 6 yrs old, bro was 5, Mom & Dad in late 30's.Slow, noisy airplane. Reeked of 87oct avgas! Never flew in one since. Flew, learned, piloted, did time in Cessna 152s, 172s till I quit flying in the 1980's. That's my long/short story!! Thnx!

Very nice job. Impressed with your taking advantage of the sunlight and great choices for the 360. Good work. One of the first planes I ever rode in was a TP. I was about 13. I now fly a 46 Ercoupe.

Hi Kevin. I literally stumbled upon your video quite by accident. Awesome my friend, hope someday I see a video of you flying a nice old rotary in the Alaska bush country. See ya soon! Hank

Bang on the centerline

I remember my dad showing us that plane which when in a stall situation it could appear you were still climbing. Kind of a stable stall optical illusion.

I got to fly in my uncle's Tripacer one time before he crashed it.

The gliding brick. 😜

I had a friend with a tripacer and if I could buy a plane again that’s what it would be. 4 people into ungodly short strips and out again. Not fast but the fun of flying is the journey!

You haven’t flown slow until you’ve flown an Aeronca Chief. 45 hp will barely get you aloft. After that, my dads Colt was Secretariat.

Very underated planes, the 160 will outperform the C-172

Southbridge was a favorite of mine during training, out of Sfz..

It will do anything a Skyhawk will.

What makes the nose wheel rotate in reverse while in flight...

The Tri Pacer was the first model Airplane I ever made. First of many.

This and the colt were the toughest student planes. Back in the day one of these cost about 3 grand.

Love the simple paint job on your Tri-Pacer ... curiuos how you attached the wing-tip camera?

Had 2 both 150 hp, nothing slow about either one...my opinion is that it is an affordable airplane.

(Sung to the tune of 'Ghost Riders in the Sky): Volks-wa-gon of the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I am also a pilot of significant mass, how comfortable is the cabin solo? And with a pax or two? I've been interested in the short wing pipers for awhile now. Never got a chance to fly one tho.

How long have you owned your Tri-Pacer? I just got my 1953 Tri-Pacer flying. Greetings from Toronto, Canada.

The starter on mine does that, too.

MY parents owned a C-140, my dad a second one later in life, and neither was fond of the Tripacer for some reason, something about how it handled. It may simply have been a Ford versus Chevy thing, I don't know.

Enjoyed the video, I have the same plane and i was wondering what camera yuo use and how do you mount it? i am wanting to record some of my flights

Kevin, I definitely enjoyed this video. I'd like to use a couple of screen in an upcoming video of mine. I will of course link to your channel. Is that cool with you?

Hos about some general specs of your plan and why you own it?

I would take a pacer over a 172 any day of the week. Stop at the fuel pump. There will always be someone wanting to chat. Pull Up in a 172 and your asked what club you belong to?

That was nice. You sure greased that landing. Thanks for the ride. Cool tune, what is it?

I want to buy one later on

Give me a tripacer over a 172 any day. Pull up to the fuel pump in the tripacer and all of a sudden you have some new friends. Pull up to the fuel pump in a 172 and your asked what club do you belong to?

Love to see how you have your camera attached to the wing outside of the strut?

Why do most pilots sound like they are literally bored to death or are getting into bed when they talk to the tower.

Got my ticket in a ‘55 TriPacer: N2623P

Hi it s look like great airplane,i want to buy one from 1956

i want to be a pilot

A 150 hp TriPacer will outrun a C172.

It's really not all that slow. The aircraft manual true airspeed chart shows 132 Kts TAS at 7000 feet. I have found that is pretty accurate when flying my Tri Pacer.

Different I could have done without that music

I know of slower planes around bud😉

As a PA 22-108 owner, I disagree, mine is slower

Don't know why new channels think music is necessary. Ruins the video. We much prefer engine noise and narration.

Why do Millennials always feel the need to garbage up a video with their music?

Thumbs down for the music.

Nice plane, well done video, stupid music.

WHERE IS IT WRITTEN THAT YOU NEED TO RUIN A LOVELY FLYING VIDEO WITH CRAPPY ROCK 'Music'!

It looks like the nose is slightly raised during straight and level flight. This will bleed off a lot of speed. Initial twsting revealed 77 MPH, Once I got things straightened out I got 107 MPH Nominal cruise. ...But I'm a Piddler!