The PA-28 Cherokee, built by Piper Aircraftis, is a family of light aircraft designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use, . All members of the PA-28 family are all-metal, unpressurized, four-seat, single-engine piston-powered airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. All PA-28 aircraft have a single door on the co-pilot side, which is entered by stepping on the wing. These particular planes have paint schemes to replicate the World War II paint schemes of the Tuskegee Airmen who were the first African American pilots to fly during WWII.