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The Glasair Sportsman 2+2 is a single-engine, high wing, strut-braced, four seat kit aircraft, developed by the Glasair Aviation company.[1][2]

Glasair Sportsman 2+2
Role Civil kit aircraft
Manufacturer Glasair
Status In production
Produced 2003 to date
Developed from Glasair GlaStar

Design and development


The Sportsman 2+2 was developed from the company's Glastar aircraft, a smaller version. The company's 'Two weeks to taxi' program provides factory-assisted assembly, while providing the owner with training in using tools and jigs. This complies with the Federal Aviation Administration's 51% construction rule, allowing issuance of a Special Certificate of Airworthiness as an amateur-built aircraft.[3][4]

The aircraft can be fitted with tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and can also be equipped with floats and amphibious floats or tundra tires.[2]

The aircraft is constructed with a fiberglass fuselage, or optionally from carbon fiber, with all metal wings and horizontal stabilizer and elevator. The airplane is available with a 180 hp (134 kW)Lycoming IO-360 engine or a 210 hp (157 kW) Lycoming IO-390 engine with an optional constant speed propeller.[5]}

The Glasair Sportsman TC (Turbo Carbon), showing its predominately carbon-fiber fuselage
The Glasair Sportsman TC (Turbo Carbon), showing its predominately carbon-fiber fuselage
A fiberglass Sportsman
A fiberglass Sportsman
The cockpit of a Glasair Sportsman
The cockpit of a Glasair Sportsman
A Glasair Sportsman 2+2 on floats
A Glasair Sportsman 2+2 on floats
Sportsman with Tundra tires
Sportsman with Tundra tires

Variants


Glasair Sportsman 2+2 Diesel
A Thielert Centurion 2.0s powered variant.
Carbon Sportsman
A variant with the fuselage constructed of carbon fiber rather than fiberglass. The weight savings of carbon fiber are negated by heavier duty cage, wing struts, and wing skins; both variants have the same empty weight, but the carbon variant gross weight is increased 150 lb.[5]

Specifications (Sportsman 2+2)


Data from Glasair website[5]

General characteristics

Performance


References


  1. Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, pages 55-56. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  2. Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 109. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
  3. DIY Plane: From Toolbox to Takeoff in Two Weeks | Autopia | Wired.com
  4. "AirCrafters Builder Assistance for Experimental Aircraft - The 51% Rule and the FAA". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  5. Glasair (2014). "Glasair Sportsman specs". www.glasairaviation.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.



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Die Glasair Sportsman 2+2 ist ein viersitziger, einmotoriger, abgestrebter Schulterdecker, der von dem US-amerikanischen Unternehmen Glasair Aviation als Bausatz hergestellt wird.[1][2]
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