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Old 2nd Dec 2015, 09:43
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Planemike
 
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""""Can’t answer your question, Oilhead, but I do know that PanAm forced the Piper Aircraft Corp to stop production of the PA16 Clipper because they thought that they owned the word “clipper”! So Piper caved in, redesigned it and it became the PA20 Pacer. """


Is this really true? Would have thought the change would have been brought on by the normal progress of product development.
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