First flown in September 1997.
Engine: Zenoah G50, 42hp
HP range: 21-65
Gross Wt. 550 lb
Empty Wt. 289 lb
Fuel capacity 5 USG
Wingspan 26.5ft
Length 17.3ft
Wing area: 109sq.ft
Height: 5.8 ft
Seats: 1
Top speed: 63 mph
Cruise speed: 63 mph
Stall: 24 mph
Range: 90sm
Climb rate: 1100 fpm
Ceiling: 19,000 ft
Takeoff run: 101ft
Landing roll: 169ft
This trike has four large lenticular wheels set with a draatic amount of negative camber to aid ground stability. It can also land on water.
Empty weight: 134 kg
Wing area: 42 sq.m
Fuel capacity: 23 lt
Certification: Canada
Engine: Rotax 503, 52 hp
Seats: 1
Cruise speed: 45 kph
ROC: 4 m/sec
Fuel burn: 15 lt/hr
Price (1998): $20,000 Can
Seabird Aviation offered the Seeker SB7L two-seat monoplane (first flown October 1989), featuring a pod-and-boom fuselage with heavily glazed cabin, braced high-mounted wings with two hardpoints for attaching 264 lb (120 kg) of stores, and a piston engine with pusher propeller.
Seabird Aviation SB7 Seeker Article
The Seeker 2 is an Australian built FAR 23 Type Certified observation aircraft, designed for forestry and crop surveys, fish spotting, wildlife tracking, border surveillance, traffic patrols, transmission power and pipeline inspection operations.
The occupants are in a tubular steel safety cell. Fire hazards are minimized with no fuel lines in cockpit area.
The SB7L-360 Seeker 2 offers helicopter visibility and slow speed handling, but with the cost efficiencies, ease of operation and lower maintenance requirements of conventional fixed wing aircraft.
Certification Basis FAR 23 up to and including Amdt 34 Noise Certification ICAO Annex 16, Volume 1, Chapter 10. FAR Part 36 Appendix G Fatigue Analysis FAR 23 Amendment 38
Seeker equipment includes:
28V Electrical system, 70A alternator
Cantilever spring steel main landing gear
Cleveland wheels and brakes, 8.00 x 6.00 low pressure tyres
Oleo strut tail landing gear, Scott 8″ steerable tail wheel
Dual primary flight controls, dual differential toe-brakes
Floor and/or nose camera/sensor aperture installation, a range of high definition and FLIR cameras available (optional)
Wing hard point installation (optional)
Double longitudinally hinged windows and doors
Baggage/cargo area with tie down points
4-point inertia-reel seatbelts
Wing tip Nav/Strobe lights
Ground power receptacle
Windscreen demister
Vacuum system (optional)
Heated pitot tube (optional)
Seabird Aviation America, Inc., headquartered in New Mexico, manufactures, sells and supports the SB7L-360 Seeker Aircraft for the Western Hemisphere.
SB7L-360 seeker 2
Engine: Lycoming 0-360-B2C
Fuel: minimum 80/87 Avgas, Mogas, or Autogas
Prop: 2 bladed wood / composite.
Wing Span 11.07 m 36 ft 4 in
Overall Length 7.00 m 23 ft 0 in
Height of Vertical Stabilizer 2.03 m 6 ft 7 in
Wheelbase 2.04 m 6 ft 8 in
Cabin Width 1.12 m 3 ft 8 in
Doors – Long Axis 1.07 m 3 ft 6 in
Empty weight 610kg 1342 lb
Maximum T/O weight 925 kg 2040 lb
Min Patrol Speed (CAS) 121 km/h 65 kts
Cruise 75% Power (CAS) 208 km/h 112 kts
Never Exceed (CAS) 239 km/h 129 kts
Stall (40deg Flap)(IAS) 89 km/h 48 kts
Fuel Capacity Usable 180 litres 47.5 US gal
Endurance (inc. reserve) Min. Patrol Speed 65 kts 7 h 15 min
Cruise (65% Power) 4 h 30 min
Range Patrol Speed (65 kts) 880 km 476 nm
Cruise (65% Power) 869 km 470 nm
Fuel Flow Patrol Speed (65 kts) 22 l/h 5.80 US gal/h
Cruise (65% Power) 34 l/h 9.00 US gal/h
Take-off/Landing run at AUW T-O run 264 m 870 ft
Landing run 198 m 654 ft
Stressing Limit Load Factor +3.8 -1.52
Built by Roy B Scroggs in 1930, The Last Laugh was similar to a dartlike paper airplane, with a narrow delta-wing with about a 75-degree sweepback/ Powered by a 90hp Curtiss OX-5, it had elevons and twin rudders. Registered N10648, the pilot sat in a closed cabin under the “wing”.
Scroggs prophesized that his airplane would one day revolutionize the entire air industry. The creation was test-flown successfully at an altitude of 10′, and Scroggs predicted an eventual top speed of 300mph, but he, and his airplane, eventually faded away.
The Scrappy is a single-place sport biplane constructed of steel tubing, wood and fabric. A 200-hp Lycoming engine provides the power.
Gross Wt. 1428 lb
Empty Wt. 981 lb
Fuel capacity, 28 USG
Wingspan 20 ft 8 in
Length 16 ft 8 in
Top speed 188 mph
Cruise 151 mph
Stall 55 mph
Climb rate 3700 fpm
Takeoff run 950 ft
Landing roll 1250 ft
Range 500 sm
The Stardust is a single-seat, homebuilt Formula 1 racer designed by John Scoville. It accommodates engines rated from 65 to 100 hp. Its fuselage is built from molybdenum steel tube with light alloy and fabric covering. Its wings feature composite structure of steel and wood, with wood and fabric covering.
Gross Wt. 790 lb
Empty Wt. 520 lb
Fuel capacity 15 USG
Wingspan 16 ft
Length 18 ft
Top speed 258 mph
Cruise 178 mph
Stall mph 58
Takeoff run 900 ft
Landing roll: 1800 ft
Range 500 sm
The 1954 Stardust is a single-place Formula One sport/racer constructed from the conventional wood, fabric and tubular steel combination. It is propelled by the regulation 85-hp or the 100-hp Continental.
Registered N85N, it was involved in a nonfatal crash during races at Niagara Falls NY on 4 July 1956.
Gross Wt. 790 lb
Empty Wt. 520 lb
Fuel capacity 15 USG
Wingspan 16 ft
Length 17 ft 6 in
Vne 250 mph
Top speed 158.17 mph
Stall 58 mph
Takeoff run 1500 ft
Landing roll 1800 ft
Range 500 sm
Adam Smith, former director of the National Museum of Flight, started to recruit volunteers in 2000. The group has included retired medics, teachers, civil engineers, film-makers and sign-writers – no one who knew how to build a plane.
The exact working replica has been built by a team of dedicated experts and enthusiasts. The building of the plane took place over the 23 years. The Strutter was built from scratch in a big shed in East Lothian. A group of pensioners aged between 65 and 100 built the historic biplane with nine of them not living to see it finished as their names have been recorded on a plaque in the cockpit.
The plane was built by pensioners in a barn in East Lothian is set to be flown by a young female pilot, Ellie Carter, 20, for the first time.
But they have now completed a Strutter, with a working engine. The Strutter was seen leaving East Lothian on the back of a lorry to undergo testing in West Lothian.
Funding was needed to keep the Strutter in Scotland. It stands in an outsize converted fruit shed in Congalton, near Edinburgh, soon to be sold.
If the shed cannot be purchased, the plane was likely to move to England.
Mike Harper, chair of the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland, said: “The Strutter is probably worth twice what the shed is worth, but we don’t want to see it leave Scotland, where it was designed and built.
Similar to a Bleriot XI, the Scottish Aviation Co. Dart was constructed during 1911 with modifications mainly to the undercarriage. A single-seater, it was powered by a 35 hp JAP eight-cylinder engine.
The Caledonia monoplane was built by the Scottish Aviation Co. from designs by Mr. F. Norman, the General Manager of the Company.
Mr. Norman is standing by the machine in overalls and talking across to Mr. Wilson, of the W. W. Proofing Co., a firm which is making a speciality of balloon fabrics in Glasgow.
The single-seat Caledonia was powered by a 35 hp JAP eight-cylinder engine and was fitted with a four wheel undercarriage, plus skids and flying in November 1911.
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