Piper PA-48 Enforcer

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PA-48 Enforcer
Role	Counter-insurgency aircraft Type of aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Piper Aircraft
First flight	29 April 1971
Retired	1984
Status	Retired
Number built	4
Developed from	North American P-51 Mustang Cavalier Mustang

The Piper PA-48 Enforcer is an American turboprop-powered light close air support aircraft built by Piper in the 1970s. It is a development of the World War II-era North American P-51 Mustang fighter. The Enforcer concept was originally created and flown as the Cavalier Mustang by David Lindsay, owner of Cavalier Aircraft, in response to the United States Air Force PAVE COIN program, but Cavalier did not have the manufacturing abilities to mass-produce the Enforcer, so the program was sold to Piper by Lindsay in 1970.