Brumby 600
| Brumby 600 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Light sport aircraft |
| National origin | Australia |
| Manufacturer | Brumby Aircraft Australia |
| Designer | Phil Goard |
| First flight | October 2005 |
| Unit cost |
AUD$48,000 - $132,000 (2009) |
| Developed from | Goair Trainer |
The Brumby Aircraft Brumby 600, also known as the Brumby LSA 600 is an Australian single-engined, two-seat, training or touring cabin monoplane. The aircraft is built by Brumby Aircraft Australia as a production or kit aircraft at Cowra Airport near Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. Designed to meet regulations governing light sport aircraft (LSA), it was developed from the Goair Trainer.
Design and development
The Brumby was developed from the GoAir GT-1 Trainer, which was built at Bankstown Airport in Sydney during the late 1990s.[1][2]
The Brumby 600 is a low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction. It has a fixed tricycle landing gear and an enclosed cockpit for two in side-by-side configuration with a forward-sliding canopy for access; sideways-opening gull-wing doors are available as an optional kit. It can be powered by a 100 to 116 hp (75 to 87 kW) Lycoming IO-233, 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS or 120 hp (89 kW) Jabiru 3300 engine, driving a wooden two-blade propeller.[3]
A high-wing version has been developed as the Brumby 610 Evolution.
Specifications
Data from Brumby Aircraft Australia,[3] Jane's All The World's Aircraft[4]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 2 (including pilot)
- Length: 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in)
- Wingspan: 8.53 m (28 ft 0 in)
- Height: 2.13 m (7 ft in)
- Wing area: 9.75 m2 (105 ft2)
- Empty weight: 350 kg (771 lb)
- Gross weight: 600 kg (1322 lb)
- Maximum speed: 259 km/h (161 mph)
- Cruising speed: 204 km/h (127 mph)
- Stall speed: 75 km/h (46 mph)
References
- Arbon, Tony (2001). "Australian Civil Aircraft Register Update". Australian Aviation. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. (April 2001): 87–89.
- Zupp, Owen (2009). "Brumby LSA: An Australian thoroughbred". Australian Aviation. Phantom Media Pty. Ltd. (June 2009): 52–56.