The CAP-5 Carioca was a civil trainer aircraft developed in

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during

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. It was essentially an enlarged version of the

CAP-4 __NOTOC__ The CAP-4 Paulistinha was a military and civilian trainer aircraft built in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s. It was originally developed by Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga (EAY) as an unlicensed copy of the Taylor Cub powered by a Sal ...

, itself an unlicensed copy of the

Taylor Cub The Taylor Cub was originally designed by C. Gilbert Taylor as a small, light and simple utility aircraft, evolved from the Arrowing Chummy. It is the forefather of the popular Piper J-3 Cub, and total production of the Cub series was 23,512 ...

. The CAP-5 had a bigger cabin, more powerful

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, and revised flying surfaces.

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proved difficult to obtain, and eventually only seven aircraft were built, going to Brazilian aeroclubs. The design was briefly revived in

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for what was to be CAP's last design, the CAP-9 air ambulance. Again, few were made.

References

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Aeroclube de Joinville website
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