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Sport
Cruiser -- from Czech Aircraft Works
(Mar 2006)
Sport Aircraft Works in the USA has released this info on its latest Czech Aircraft Works all-metal low-wing two seater. We were intrigued to see it is packaged with 20 hours of instruction as part of the US$65,000 (AU$92,000) asking price.
SportCruiser: Newest Certified S-LSA
Docile handling and affordable all-metal two-seater comes with training!
Sport Aircraft Works has just announced the certification of its third S-LSA design in six months. The new SportCruiser is “designed to be eminently flyable, enjoyable, and particularly affordable,” according to Sport Aircraft Works President, Danny Defelici.
“With this airplane, SAW now covers all the bases in Sport Pilot airplanes – the Mermaid amphibian, the cantilever-wing, high-performance Parrot, and now the entry-level SportCruiser.”
Sport Pilot License Included?
The new SportCruiser comes with an industry first: a full twenty hours of free pilot training. That is enough to meet the FAA requirements for the Sport Pilot license. “We want to encourage those who have never flown, or those who flew ages ago, to get into the cockpit,” said Defelici. “An airplane that is designed with the new flyer in mind should include what the new flyer needs. We want our customers to feel prepared, to feel good in their new airplanes, and there is no better way to encourage them, than to provide up to 20 hours of instruction.” Training is provided at Sport Aircraft Works’s new facility at the Indiantown (FL) airport (X58). Delivery of new SportCruisers is very quick. Defelici anticipates that a customer could buy the SportCruiser and come to Florida for training; and by the time he or she is licensed and ready to fly, the new pilot will be comfortable at home in the new machine.
Competence and Convenience:
The pilot can be ready to fly in short order, and the airplane definitely is. Sporting fantastic visibility, the all-metal, low-wing, 100hp SportCruiser is ready to take a large payload a long way, on just a little money. With pricing set at $65,000 (FOB Indiantown) and burning around 4~4.5 gallons of auto gas per hour, the SportCruiser won’t break the budget; and with its American-designed, all-metal traditional construction and US-sourced materials and airframe components, keeping it flying (and insured!) will be trouble-free. All three SAW aircraft are designed to be easy to fly, with touchdown speeds in the high 20-knot range.
Sport Aircraft Works, importer and distributor of the Czech Aircraft Works designs, completed all the certification work on time. “We said in January’s announcement that we would be certified in March, and we did it,” a happy Defelici said. “It helped that we have such great support from CZAW, and that we’re learning what it takes to certify. The FAA has been great in getting this done.”
(The SportCruiser, along with the S-LSA Parrot and Mermaid, will be on display at the Sun ’n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland (FL), April 4-10, Booths 68 & 79.)
Specifications
With Rotax 912ULS 100HP
Takeoff (Grass) 350 Feet 105 Meters
Takeoff (50' object) (Grass) 700 Feet 210 Meters
Climb Rate 1200 Fpm 6 M/s
Stall Speed with Flaps 30 Mph 55 Km/hr
Stall Speed w/o Flaps 33 Mph 61 Km/hr
Cruise Speed (75% Power) (True airspeed) 125 Mph 201 Km/hr
Never Exceed Speed (Vne) 160 Mph 258 Km/hr
Range (75% Power, no reserve) 550 Sm 886 Km
Endurance (no reserve) 5 Hours 5 Hours
Landing Ground Roll (Grass) 344 Feet 120 Meters
Figures with 100-hp Rotax at a typical load; pilot and passenger + fuel & baggage = 600kg or 1320 lbs. (660lb/300kg empty weight.) All figures subject to change without notice.
With
Jabiru 3300 120HP
Takeoff (Grass) 350 Feet 105 Meters
Takeoff (50' object) (Grass) 700 Feet 210 Meters
Climb Rate 1200 Fpm 6 M/s
Stall Speed with Flaps 30 Mph 55 Km/hr
Stall Speed w/o Flaps 34 Mph 61 Km/hr
Cruise Speed (75% Power) (True airspeed) 135 Mph 217 Km/hr
Never Exceed Speed (Vne) 160 Mph 258 Km/hr
Range (75% Power, no reserve) 500 Sm 805 Km
Endurance (no reserve) 4 Hours 4 Hours
Landing Ground Roll (Grass) 400 Feet 120 Meters
Figures with 120-hp Jabiru at a typical load; pilot and passenger + fuel & baggage = 600kg or 1320 lbs. All figures subject to change without notice.
Maker: Czech Aircraft Works
US Distributor: Sport Aircraft Works
New Zealand Distributor: Aerosport Aviation
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