Tapanee Levitation 4
| Levitation 4 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Four-seat homebuilt STOL aircraft |
| National origin | Canada |
| Manufacturer | Tapanee Aviation |
| Designer | Michel Lequin |
| First flight | 2002 |
| Number built | 3 (Dec 2011)[1] |
| Developed from | Tapanee Pegazair-100 |
| Variants | Tapanee Levitation 2 |
The Tapanee Levitation 4 is a Canadian four-seat STOL aircraft designed to be homebuilt by Michel Lequin for Tapanee Aviation of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec.[1][2][3]
Design and development
A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing.[2] Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller.[2] The Leviation has a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel and a cabin holding a pilot and three passengers in two rows of side-by-side seating.[2][3] By December 2004 five kits had been sold.[2]
Specifications
Data from [2]Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 3
- Length: 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in)
- Wingspan: 10.21 m (33 ft 6 in)
- Height: 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 16.72 m2 (180 ft2)
- Empty weight: 621 kg (1368 lb)
- Gross weight: 1133 kg (2500 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine, 134 kW (180 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 255 km/h (159 mph)
- Cruising speed: 185 km/h (115 mph)
- Stall speed: 62 km/h (38 mph)
- Range: 925 km (575 miles)
- Rate of climb: 3.6 m/s (700 ft/min)
See also
- Related development
References
- Notes
- 1 2 Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 71. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jackson 2008, p. 87
- 1 2 Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 73. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- Bibliography
- Paul Jackson, ed. (2008). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009. Coulsdon, Surrey, England: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-2837-4.
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