The Javelin V6 STOL is an American
STOL homebuilt aircraft
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that was designed and produced by
Javelin Aircraft of
Wichita, Kansas
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. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.
[Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 182. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ]
Design and development
The V6 STOL consists of plans to power an existing
certified Piper PA-20 Pacer airframe with a
Ford Motor Company
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V6 engine and moving it from the ''
Certified Category'' to the ''Experimental Amateur-built'' category.
The aircraft features a
strut-braced high wing
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A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...
, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed via doors, fixed
conventional landing gear
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and a single engine in
tractor configuration
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.
Since it uses a standard Piper Pacer airframe, the aircraft is made from welded steel tubing, covered in
doped aircraft fabric
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. Its span wing employs a USA 35B
airfoil, mounts
flaps and has a wing area of . The standard conversion installs a Ford V6 powerplant, driving a fixed pitch propeller, although engines of up to can be employed. The engine gives the aircraft a sea level, standard day takeoff distance of and a landing distance of .
The V6 STOL has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is .
The manufacturer estimates the time to complete the conversion from the supplied plans as 400 hours.
Operational history
In January 2014, 14 examples were
registered in the United States with the
Federal Aviation Administration
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, but a total of 25 had been registered at one time.
Specifications (V6 STOL)
References
External links
Photo of a Javelin V6 STOL{{Javelin aircraft
V6 STOL
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
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