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Piper Aerostar
The Piper Aerostar, also known as the Ted Smith Aerostar or Piper PA-60, is a pressurized, six-seat, twin-engine piston business aircraft designed by Ted Smith and produced from 1967 to 1984.
Piper Aircraft
Piper Aircraft is an American general aviation manufacturer based in Vero Beach, Florida. Founded in 1937 around the Piper Cub, it has built roughly 135,000 aircraft.
Piper Alpha
Piper Alpha was an oil and gas production platform in the UK North Sea, destroyed by explosions and fire on 6 July 1988, killing 167 of the 226 men aboard.
Piper Chapman
Piper Chapman is a fictional character and protagonist of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Played by Taylor Schilling, she is a white Brooklynite sentenced to prison.
Piper De Palma
Piper De Palma, also credited Piper de Palma, is an American actress, director, and writer born 1996 in Palo Alto, daughter of director Brian De Palma; known for the lead in Spiral Farm (2019), The Daphne Project, Ride or Die, and directing Carmilla and Jane's Bachelorette Weekend.
Piper Halliwell
Piper Halliwell is the fictional middle Halliwell sister of Charmed (1998–2006), played by Holly Marie Combs. Her powers are Molecular Immobilization and Combustion; after Prue's death she becomes the eldest, most powerful Charmed One, running P3 and Halliwell's.
Piper J-3 Cub
The Piper J-3 Cub, also known as the L-4, is an American high-wing, two-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, from 1937 to 1947.
Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman, American author of the 2010 memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, served 13 months of a 15-month sentence at FCI Danbury for money laundering in a drug trafficking scheme; her book became Jenji Kohan's Emmy-winning Netflix series.
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs, 1932–2023) was an American actress and three-time Oscar nominee for The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, Emmy winner for Promise, and Twin Peaks' Catherine Martell.
Piper Niven
Piper Niven (Kimberly Benson, born 1991) is a Scottish WWE wrestler formerly known as Viper; first ICW Women's Champion, Mae Young Classic 2017 quarterfinalist, and WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Chelsea Green.
Piper PA-18 Super Cub
The Piper PA-18 Super Cub, also known as the Piper Super Cub, is a two-seat single-engine tailwheel light aircraft Piper introduced in 1949 as a strengthened development of the PA-11.
Piper PA-24 Comanche
The Piper PA-24 Comanche is a four-seat, low-wing, single-engine piston aircraft built by Piper Aircraft in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, from 1958 to 1972, competing with the Beechcraft Bonanza.
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee, also known as the Piper Cherokee, is a single-engine, low-wing light aircraft family built by Piper Aircraft; more than 32,000 have been built since 1960.
Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche
The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche is an American twin-engine light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1963 to 1972, widely used as a multiengine trainer.
Piper PA-31 Navajo
The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of twin-engine, cabin-class piston aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1967 to 1984 for corporate, charter, and commuter airline use.
Piper PA-32R
The Piper PA-32R, marketed as the Piper Lance and later the Piper Saratoga, is a six-seat, single-engine piston aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1976 to about 2008.
Piper PA-34 Seneca
The Piper PA-34 Seneca, also known as the Piper Seneca, is an American twin-engine, six- or seven-seat light aircraft built by Piper since the early 1970s as a development of the Cherokee Six.
Piper PA-38 Tomahawk
The Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, also called the Piper Tomahawk, is a two-seat, single-engine, T-tailed trainer built by Piper Aircraft from 1978 to 1982, with more than 2,400 produced.
Piper PA-46
The Piper PA-46, known as the Piper Malibu and Malibu Meridian, is a family of six-seat single-engine cabin aircraft built in Vero Beach, Florida since 1984.
Piper PA-48 Enforcer
The Piper PA-48 Enforcer was an American turboprop close air support aircraft built by Piper Aircraft in the early 1980s as a heavily modernized derivative of the P-51 Mustang.
Piper Perabo
Piper Perabo (Piper Lisa Perabo), American actress born 1976 in Dallas, Texas; star of Coyote Ugly (2000), lead of Covert Affairs (2010–2014), and Summer Higgins in Yellowstone.
Piper Rockelle
Piper Rockelle (Piper Rockelle Smith, born 2007) is an American YouTuber and kidfluencer whose Squad videos, a $1.85M 2024 abuse-lawsuit settlement, the Netflix doc Bad Influence, and her 2026 OnlyFans debut define the case.
Piper TTS
Piper TTS is a fast, open-source neural text-to-speech system that runs entirely on local CPUs, including the Raspberry Pi, offering over 100 voices in more than 30 languages.
Piper Verlag
Piper Verlag is a German trade publishing house based in Munich, founded by bookseller Reinhard Piper in 1904 and owned by the Swedish Bonnier group since 1994.
Piperaceae
Piperaceae, the pepper family, is a pantropical Piperales family of five genera and 3,000–3,600 species, dominated by Piper (black pepper, betel, kava) and Peperomia, with three subfamilies and a Late Cretaceous fossil record.
Piperacetazine
Piperacetazine (Quide, Actazine, Psymod) is a discontinued piperidine-subclass phenothiazine antipsychotic, a dopamine D2 antagonist approved by FDA in 1969 for schizophrenia and withdrawn from US marketing.
Piperacillin
Piperacillin is a semisynthetic, broad-spectrum ureidopenicillin antibiotic developed by Toyama Chemical, given by injection, active against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and now used almost entirely with tazobactam as Zosyn or Tazocin.
Piperacillin/tazobactam
Piperacillin/tazobactam (Zosyn) is an intravenous penicillin plus beta-lactamase inhibitor combination approved in the US in 1993 for intra-abdominal, pneumonia, skin, and pelvic infections, with dosing 3.375-4.5 g every 6 hours and known AKI risk with vancomycin.
Piperales
Piperales, a magnoliid order of flowering plants (pepper family, Piperaceae; birthwort family, Aristolochiaceae), about 4,200 species in 16 genera, largest angiosperm order outside eudicots and monocots, includes black pepper Piper nigrum.
Piperalin
Piperalin (Pipron), CAS 3478-94-2, is a piperidine sterol biosynthesis inhibitor fungicide controlling powdery mildew on greenhouse ornamentals; US-registered since 1964, not EU-approved, low acute toxicity, highly toxic to fish.