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Tapanee Levitation 4

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Top speed
  
255 km/h

Length
  
7.47 m

Wingspan
  
10 m

Manufacturer
  
Tapanee Aviation

The Tapanee Levitation 4 is a Canadian four-seat STOL aircraft designed to be homebuilt by Michel Lequin for Tapanee Aviation of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec.

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Design and development

A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing. Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller. The Leviation has a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel and a cabin holding a pilot and three passengers in two rows of side-by-side seating. By December 2004 five kits had been sold.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 3
  • Length: 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in)
  • Wingspan: 10.21 m (33 ft 6 in)
  • Height: 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in)
  • Wing area: 16.72 m2 (180 ft2)
  • Empty weight: 621 kg (1368 lb)
  • Gross weight: 1133 kg (2500 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 flat-four piston engine, 134 kW (180 hp)

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 255 km/h (159 mph)
  • Cruising speed: 185 km/h (115 mph)
  • Stall speed: 62 km/h (38 mph)
  • Range: 925 km (575 miles)
  • Rate of climb: 3.6 m/s (700 ft/min)

    • References

    Tapanee Levitation 4 Wikipedia
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