The Boisavia B.60 Mercurey was a series of four-seat light aircraft developed in France shortly after World War II.

Design and operations

The Mercurey was a conventional high-wing braced monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. It was built in small numbers and found use in the normal general aviation roles of tourer, trainer, agricultural aircraft, and glider tug.

Variants

;B.60 Mercurey:3 prototypes powered by

Renault 4Pei The Renault 4P, also called the Renault Bengali Junior, was a series of air-cooled 4-cylinder inverted inline aero engines designed and built in France from 1927, which produced from to . Design and development Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic Ocea ...

engine ;B.601 Mercurey:Powered by a

Avco Lycoming O-435-1 The Lycoming O-435 is an American six-cylinder, horizontally opposed fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter engine made by Lycoming Engines. The engine is a six-cylinder version of the four-cylinder Lycoming O-290. Design and development The powe ...

engine;three built. ;B.601L Mercurey:Main production version, equipped with an Avco Lycoming O-360-A engine;twenty-seven built. ;B.602 Mercurey:Powered by a

Continental E165-4 The Continental O-470 engine is a family of carbureted and fuel-injected six-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled aircraft engines that was developed especially for use in light aircraft by Continental Motors. Engines designated "IO" ...

engine;two built. ;B.602A:1x Continental O-470-11 ;B.603 Mercurey Special:Glider tug version, powered by a Salmson 8 As engine (Argus As 10);five built. ;B.604 Mercurey II:Dedicated glider tug with lengthened fuselage, powered by a

Salmson 9ABc Between 1920 and 1951 the Société des Moteurs Salmson in France developed and built a series of widely used air-cooled aircraft engines.Gunston 1986, p. 158. Design and development After their successful water-cooled radial engines, develop ...

radial piston engine;one built). ;B.605 Mercurey:Similar to the B.60, powered by a Régnier 4LO2 (SNECMA 4L-02) engine;four built. ;B.606 Mercurey: Régnier 4LO20 (SNECMA 4L-00) engine;one built.

Design and operations

Variants

Specifications (B.60)

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