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Piper PA-28 Cherokee / Warrior / Archer POH & manuals

One type certificate family, three wings, and forty years of changes. A Cherokee 140's Hershey-bar wing and a tapered-wing Archer III fly and stall differently enough that the right book is not optional.

3 variants · 8 documents · all links checked live

Piper PA-28 Archer III parked on the ramp
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Piper PA-28 Cherokee / Warrior / Archer checklist

These documents are for reference and study. Editions, serial ranges, and revision levels vary, and none of these copies carries your airplane's weight and balance or equipment list. The current POH or AFM in your aircraft governs every flight.

Handbooks by variant

Open the variant that matches your airplane's model year and serial range. If you are between two of them, read both title pages before you trust a number.

PA-28-140 Cherokee (1964–1977)2 docs

Hershey-bar wing, 150 hp O-320 on most airframes, and an owner's handbook written before the GAMA format existed. Weight and balance is where these bite.

  • PA-28 Cherokee 140 handbookmanualslib.com

    Short document, 27 pages, which tells you how thin the early handbooks were. Not a modern POH; treat placards and the airplane's own paperwork as authority.

  • Piper owner publications catalog (order form)piper.com

    Part numbers and prices for factory handbooks you can order. Official, but it is a catalog, not the handbook.

PA-28-151 / -161 Warrior and Warrior II (1974–1996)2 docs

Tapered wing arrives with the Warrior. The -161 Warrior II adds 10 hp and a higher gross weight, so the takeoff and climb charts are not interchangeable with a -151.

PA-28-181 Archer II / III (1976–present)5 docs

180 hp, and the Archer III (1995 on) reshaped the cowl and interior. Late airframes ship with G1000 or G3X panels whose supplements carry the real avionics limits.

Also worth having

The FAA handbooks are public domain and free, and chapter 10 of the PHAK is the clearest explanation of what each POH section is supposed to tell you. See the FAA handbook list →

Once you have the right handbook, build the card: Piper PA-28 Cherokee / Warrior / Archer checklist template →