Gatard Statoplan Alouette

Short description: 1950s French aircraft

AG 01 Statoplan Alouette

General information
Type| Sports plane
Manufacturer| Homebuilt
Designer|

Albert Gatard

History
First flight| 1951

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.

## Contents

* 1 Design
* 2 Specifications
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## 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

Data from [1]

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

1. ↑ "Gatard AG-01 'Statoplan Alouette' - avion de tourisme - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. 2005-12-13. https://www.aviafrance.com/gatard-ag-01-statoplan-alouette--aviation-france-10007.htm. Retrieved 2019-02-03.

## Further reading

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

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