Gatard Statoplan Alouette

The Gatard Statoplan AG 01 Statoplan Alouette was a light, two-seat sports airplane developed in France in the early 1950s and marketed for homebuilding.

Design

It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of short-coupled design with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Construction was a plywood-covered wooden structure throughout. The variable-incidence horizontal stabiliser was fitted with small endplates to provide extra directional stability but there were no separate elevators.

Specifications

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General characteristics

• Crew: two
• Length: 4.60 m (15 ft 1 in)
• Wingspan: 8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
• Empty weight: 200 kg (441 lb)
• Max takeoff weight: 380 kg (838 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × modified Poinsard air-cooled flat-four, 24 kW (32 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed Gatard fixed-pitch wooden propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 138 km/h (86 mph, 75 kn)
• Cruise speed: 105 km/h (65 mph, 57 kn)

References

Further reading

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 415. 

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