On $17^7+76271^3=d^2$ and coprime solutions to $x^6+y^3=z^2$?

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This post got me curious. The Diophantine equation with $x\neq1$,

$$x^n+y^3 = z^2\tag1$$

has infinitely many coprime solutions when $n\leq5$. Are there at least a few co-prime ones when $n>5$?

$n=6:$ $\color{red}{??}$

No solutions with $x<100$ and $0<y<100000$. (I checked.)

$n=7:$

$$2^7+17^3=71^2$$ $$17^7+76271^3=21063928^2$$

$n=8:$

$$43^8+96222^3 = 30042907^2$$

Q: Does $n=6$ in fact have a coprime solution? (It seems strange that $n=7,8$ has but $n=6$ doesn't. A larger search radius might yield a result.)

P.S.: From work by Darmon and Granville, if $1/p+1/q+1/r<1$, then the equation $ax^p+by^q+cz^r=0$ has only finitely many coprime solutions. So $(1)$ has only finitely many for $n\geq7$.

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Proposition 14.6.1. In the parabolic case $1/p + 1/q + 1/r = 1$, the equation $x^p + y^q = z^r$ has no solutions in nonzero coprime integers, except that the equation $x^3 + y^6 = z^2$ has the solutions $(x, y, z) = (2, ±1, ±3)$, and the equation $x^3 + y^2 = z^6$ has the solutions $(x, y, z) = (−2, ±3, ±1)$.

From Henri Cohen Number Theory Volume II: Analytic and Modern Tools