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.
| AG 01 Statoplan Alouette | |
|---|---|
| Role | Sports plane |
| Manufacturer | Homebuilt |
| Designer | Albert Gatard |
| First flight | 1951 |
Design edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ "Gatard AG-01 'Statoplan Alouette' - avion de tourisme - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. 2005-12-13. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
Further reading edit
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 415.