William Thomas Piper Sr. (8 January 1881 Knapps Creek, New York U.S. - 15 January 1970, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania) was an American airplane manufacturer, and founder, eponym, and 1st president of Piper Aircraft Corporation 1929-1970. He graduated from Harvard University in 1903, and became known as "the Henry Ford of Aviation".

Piper fought in the Spanish-American War and World War One, in the later as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.

External links

• Army Aviation Association of America biography
• Find-A-Grave biography

1881 births | 1970 deaths | American aviators | American businesspeople