Meet Roger Peperell,Piper Aviation Museum Director

Roger has been the company historian at the Piper Aircraft, Inc. at Vero Beach, Florida for the past 20 years and a member of the Piper Aviation Museum Board of Directors for the past 15 years. He is recognized as the world's foremost Piper aircraft historian. He lives in Swanage in the county of Dorset in the UK.

Roger has written and published four history books and a series of picture books on Piper Aircraft and has had numerous articles and photographs published in aviation magazines. He has volunteered at the Piper Aviation Museum over the past 30 years and helped to establish the archives there as well as an archives room at Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach. He has given numerous talks on Piper around the USA and Europe, promoting all things Piper, the Museum and Sentimental Journey. The Vintage Piper Aircraft Club based in the UK with more than 300 members was run by Roger between 2002 and 2013 and is still active today.

Roger's current Piper history book titled "Piper Aircraft - Freedom of Flight" details the development and history of one of the most well-known aircraft manufacturers in the world. It consists of the main book of over 500 pages and a supplement. So far six out of the 12 picture books of marketing photographs, advertisements and "Launch News" from Roger's collection have been published, with the goal of having the set complete by 2028.

For Roger, it has been a love affair with everything Piper for the past 55 years. He learned to fly in a Cherokee 140 when he lived in Toronto in the 70's. Returning to the UK, he worked for Xerox Corporation being responsible for Information Technology across Europe, retiring in 2000. In the early 1990's, he owned a 1970 Cherokee 180 based at Oxford Airport.