Goair Trainer
Trainer | |
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The first Goair Trainer at an aviation industry trade fair in 1998 | |
Role | Two-seat training or touring monoplane |
National origin | Australia |
Manufacturer | Goair Products |
Designer | Phil Goard |
First flight | 1995 |
Number built | 2 |
Variants | Brumby Aircraft Brumby 600 |
The Goair Trainer is an Australian single-engined, two-seat, training or touring cabin monoplane designed and built by Goair Products at Bankstown Airport in Sydney, Australia.
Design and development
[edit]The Trainer is a low-wing monoplane, first flown in July 1995 and powered by a 118 hp (88 kW) Lycoming O-235 piston engine driving a two-bladed propeller.[1] It has a fixed tricycle landing gear and an enclosed cockpit for two in side-by-side configuration with a sliding canopy for access.[1]
Flight testing was completed in November 1998; following this a second substantially-modified aircraft was built as the GoAir GT-1 Trainer, using the engine and instruments from the first aircraft.[2] Changes included a wider fuselage and different ailerons and flaps; the GT-1 was eventually developed into the Brumby Aircraft Brumby 600.[1][2][3]
Specifications
[edit]Data from [1]Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1999-2000
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
- Wingspan: 28 ft 0 in (8.76 m)
- Height: 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
- Wing area: 113 sq ft (10.50 m2)
- Empty weight: 900 lb (400 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,650 lb (748 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine , 118 hp (88 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 132 mph (213 km/h, 115 kn)
- Cruise speed: 115 mph (185 km/h, 100 kn)
- Stall speed: 52 mph (84 km/h, 45 kn)
- Endurance: 4 hours
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Paul Jackson, ed. (1999). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1999-2000. Jane's Information Group Limited. ISBN 0-7106-1898-0.
- Arbon, Tony (2001). "Australian Civil Aircraft Register Update". Australian Aviation (April 2001). Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd.: 87–89.
- Zupp, Owen (2009). "Brumby LSA: An Australian thoroughbred". Australian Aviation (June 2009). Phantom Media Pty. Ltd.: 52–56.