Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
How did any given airplane sell? In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. But successful? Not at all. Was it profitable for the company?
Vintage Aviation News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Current L-4/J-3 Cub owners are not inexperienced cadets, so they often choose to accept the nose-over risk and retrofit their airplanes with Grove disc brakes under an FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate. The L-4’s firewall forward section is considered to be part of the fuselage assembly. That is the case with 44-79780.
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Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 28, 2024
According to the Navy accident report, the airplane hit the water at a near vertical angle on its back. In the process, she lost her outer wing panels, engine section and a number of other components, so what remains today consists mostly of the fuselage, from the firewall back, and the tail feathers. SBD-5 BuNo.36175
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
How did any given airplane sell? In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. But successful? Not at all. Was it profitable for the company?
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 17, 2025
Theyre built stronger than you would see today in most airplanes. “There was no firewall forward, there were no motor mounts or oil tank, no fuel tanks,” Devries said. He packed up his family and put the airplane in the garage. I had a hangar in San Luis Obispo, and Id moved the airplane down here.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 6, 2024
image by Jason Fuller) MA: “So we were just saying that after the accident, the airplane came back to Douglas and he had to face a tough decision, rebuild the airplane or not. And then we made the decision that we wanted to rebuild the airplane and continue to fly and let people enjoy it all over the U.S.
Air Facts
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Most contacts requested information on ordering a firewall forward kit, and/or asking if we had kits for other types of piston aircraft, especially the C182, C210, C206 and Piper PA28 series. So, we decided to seek FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) approval to allow owners to swap their old airframes to our firewall forward engine kit.
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