The Historical PZL P.11c is an American

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that was designed and produced by Historical Aircraft Corporation of

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. The aircraft is a 66% scale replica of the

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PZL P.11c The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed and constructed during the early 1930s by Warsaw-based aircraft manufacturer PZL. Possessing an all-metal structure, metal-covering, and high-mounted gull wing, the type held the distinction o ...

fighter and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 177. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.

Design and development

The aircraft features a strut-braced

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, a single-seat open cockpit with a windshield, fixed

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and a single engine in

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. The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing and wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped

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. Its span wing employs a NACA 2412 airfoil and has a wing area of . The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the CAM 100

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powerplant. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is . The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, basic VFR instruments, fabric and even paint. Also included were replica 7.9 mm

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s and a ring gun site. The manufacturer indicated that the design was intended for novice builders and estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 1400 hours.

Specifications (PZL P.11c)

References

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