Tapanee Levitation 4
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| Levitation 4 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | Four-seat homebuilt STOL aircraft |
| National origin | Canada |
| Manufacturer | Tapanee Aviation |
| Designer | Michel Lequin |
| Number built | 3 (Dec 2011)[1] |
| History | |
| First flight | 2002 |
| Developed from | Tapanee Pegazair-100 |
| Variant | Tapanee Levitation 2 |
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.[1][2][3][4]
A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing, leading edge slats and Junkers flaperons. Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller. The Levitation 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.[2][3][4]
Specifications
Data from [2]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 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 621 kg (1,368 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,133 kg (2,500 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 flat-four piston engine , 134 kW (180 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 255 km/h (159 mph, 138 kn)
- Cruise speed: 185 km/h (115 mph, 100 kn)
- Stall speed: 62 km/h (38 mph, 33 kn)
- Range: 925 km (575 mi, 500 nmi)
- Rate of climb: 3.6 m/s (700 ft/min)
