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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][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 |
Design and development
A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing, leading edge slats and Junkers flaperons. Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller. 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. By December 2004 five kits had been sold.[2][3][4]
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 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 621 kg (1,368 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,133 kg (2,500 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 flat-four piston engine , 134 kW (180 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 255 km/h (159 mph, 138 kn)
- Cruise speed: 185 km/h (115 mph, 100 kn)
- Stall speed: 62 km/h (38 mph, 33 kn)
- Range: 925 km (575 mi, 500 nmi)
- Rate of climb: 3.6 m/s (700 ft/min)
See also
Related development
References
- Notes
- Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 71. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- Jackson 2008, p. 87
- Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 73. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
- Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 129. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
- 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.
External links
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