The Terzi T30 Katana is an Italian single-seat competition

aerobatic Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...

monoplane designed by the Milanese aeronautical engineer Pietro Terzi. Terzi built a limited series with his firm Terzi Aerodyne based in Milan, Italy.

Design and development

The Katana is a single-seat monoplane with a fixed conventional landing gear. The wings and tail are aluminum alloy construction with a steel tube fuselage covered with composite shells. It is powered by either a nose-mounted Lycoming IO-720 or Lycoming IO-540 piston engine.

Variant

;T30C :Powered by a 300hp (224kW) Lycoming IO-540 piston engine. ;T30E :Powered by a 400hp (298kW) Lycoming IO-720 piston engine.

Specifications (T30E)

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Pietro Terzi Aircraft
{{Portal bar, Italy, Companies, Aviation 1990s Italian sport aircraft Aerobatic aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1991