Nicolas-Claude NC-2 Aquilon
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1930s French aircraft
TypeTourism
Number built1
First flight5 April 1937
The Nicolas-Claude NC-2 Aquilon was a single-seat touring aircraft built in the late 1930s, featuring a low-wing monoplane with canard foreplanes. The NC-2 was first flown on 5 April 1937 at Auxerre.[1]
Data from [2]
General characteristics
Performance
- Maximum speed: 175 km/h (109 mph, 94 kn)
- Cruise speed: 130 km/h (81 mph, 70 kn)
- Stall speed: 50 km/h (31 mph, 27 kn)
- Range: 850 km (530 mi, 460 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,000 ft)
- Wing loading: 29.2 kg/m2 (6.0 lb/sq ft)
- ↑ Colinot, Raymond; Cartigny, Jacques (April 2011). "Nicolas-Claude NC-2 'Aquilon' : Un caneton amateur". LA FANA d'Aviation (in French) (497): 70–72.
- ↑ Parmentier, Bruno (8 December 2017). "Nicolas-Claude NC-2 'Aquilon'". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 5 February 2019.