Ayres LM200 Loadmaster
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The Ayres LM200 Loadmaster was a small
cargo aircraft A cargo aircraft (also known as freight aircraft, freighter, airlifter or cargo jet) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is designed or converted for the carriage of air cargo, cargo rather than passenger aircraft, passengers. Such aircraft usually ...
developed in the 1990s by
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largely for the needs of small-package carriers. In 1996, urged on by
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, development was begun, designed to carry four demi containers. The aircraft was to be powered by a LHTEC CTP800-4T turboprop, which was composed of two CTP800s driving a single five-bladed Hamilton-Standard propeller through a combining gearbox. To support this development effort, Ayres acquired the LET aircraft manufacturing company in the Czech Republic in September 1998. In
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, the company was forced into bankruptcy when creditors foreclosed on it, and the Loadmaster program was terminated.


Specifications (LM200, as designed)


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External links


Flug-revue LM 200 page

Forecast International Archive - Ayres Loadmaster 200
(a Microsoft Word document) LM200 Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States United States cargo aircraft 1990s United States civil aircraft Single-engined turboprop aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft High-wing aircraft {{Aero-1990s-stub