An affordable, easy-to-fly airplane that bridges the gap between pure trainer and entry level cruiser.

When Piper introduced the Warrior, the fat Hershey bar wing was replaced with a new tapered design which was soon applied to the rest of the Cherokee line.

You have to hand it to Piper: over the years, the company has learned how to take a good thing and remake it into more models and variants than the average buyer can keep track of. We’re thinking here of the ubiquitous Cherokee, a line with roots back into the early 1960s that lives on yet today. The Warrior stands about midway in the lineage of the Cherokee, which remains one of Piper’s best sellers. Like the Cessna 172, the basic 150-HP four-place, fixed-gear single is as close to an everyman airplane as you can get. …