Transavia Airtruk
The Transavia PL-12 Airtruk is a single-engine agricultural aircraft designed and built by the Transavia Corporation in Australia. The Airtruk is a shoulder-wing strut braced sesquiplane of all-metal construction, with the cockpit mounted above a tractor-location opposed-cylinder air-cooled engine and short pod fuselage with rear door. The engine cowling, rear fuselage and top decking are of fibreglass. It has a tricycle undercarriage, the main units of which are carried on the lower sesquiplane wings. It has twin tail booms with two unconnected tails. Its first flight was on 22 April 1965, and was certified on 10 February 1966. A Transavia PL-12 featured in the 1985 movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Manufacturer
- Transavia Corporation
- Country of origin
- Australia
- First flight
- 1965-04-22
- Length
- 6.35 m
- Wingspan
- 11.98 m
Specifications
- Cruise speed
- 95 kt
- Max speed
- 180 kt
- Range
- 99 nm
- Rate of climb
- 590 ft/min
- Max takeoff weight
- 4,090 lb
- Empty weight
- 1,709 lb
- Fuel capacity
- 47.9 US gal
- Powerplant
- Rolls-Royce/Continental IO-520-D
- Engines
- 1
- Seats
- 2
- Length
- 21 ft
- Wingspan
- 39.3 ft
- Height
- 9 ft
- Number built
- 138
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Reference and training only. Specifications vary by variant — consult the manufacturer and the official documents.