The Franklyn Pea Bee is an American single place homebuilt aircraft, that was designed in the 1970s.

Pea Bee
Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin United States
Designer George Franklyn

Design and development

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The Pea Bee is a single place, strut-braced, low wing aircraft with conventional landing gear. The fuselage is all aluminum, the wings are of wooden construction with aluminum skins. The wings are configured with a slight anhedral.[1]

Specifications (Pea Bee)

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Data from Air Trails

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Wingspan: 18 ft (5.5 m)
  • Empty weight: 700 lb (318 kg)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Franklin Horizontally opposed piston
  • Propellers: 2-bladed

Performance

  • Cruise speed: 87 kn (100 mph, 160 km/h)

See also

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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References

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  1. ^ Air Trails. Summer 1971. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)