The Godbille GJJ is a French variant of the
Piper PA-20 Pacer
The PA-20 Pacer and PA-22 Tri-Pacer, Caribbean, and Colt are an American family of light aircraft, light strut-braced high-wing monoplane aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1949 to 1964.
The Pacer is essentially a four-place version of ...
, first flown in 1961.
Design
In 1961 Jacques and Jules Godbille built a three-seat light aircraft based on the structure of the
Piper PA-20 Pacer
The PA-20 Pacer and PA-22 Tri-Pacer, Caribbean, and Colt are an American family of light aircraft, light strut-braced high-wing monoplane aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1949 to 1964.
The Pacer is essentially a four-place version of ...
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Lycoming O-235-C air-cooled
flat four engine
A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine, is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying on opposite sides of a common crankshaft. The most common type of flat-four engine is the boxer-four engine, ...
rather than the Pacer's more usual
Lycoming O-290-D, the closest Piper variant was the
PA-20S 115. The
engine cowlings of the Piper and Gobille are distinct, the latter having a wide open nose and a gap at its rear rather than merging smoothly into the fuselage. The Godbille's
wing tips are square and fitted with
tip plates, whereas the Piper's are rounded, and the Godbille's vertical tail is taller than the Piper's and straight edged rather than curved.
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Operational history
The sole Godbille GJJ was registered on 7 December 1961[ and flew for the first time before the end of the year.][ The Godbilles retained it for a decade but after that it changed hands rapidly, with eight different owners before 1988.][ It remains on the French Civil Aircraft Register in 2014.][
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References
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[{{cite book , title=Fox Papa - Registre des avions Français amateur, last=Chillon , first=Jacques, date=25 June 2009 , edition=2009, publisher=Ver Luisant, location= Brive, isbn=978-2-3555-1-066-3, page=92]
[{{cite book , title=Les Avions Francais de 1944 à 1964, last=Gaillard, first=Pierre, year=1990, publisher=Éditions EPA, location=Paris, isbn=2-85120-350-9, pages=219]
[{{cite book , title=European registers handbook 2014 , last= Partington , first=Dave, year=201, publisher= Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, location= , isbn=978-0-85130-465-6, page=]
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