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AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Restoration Report – Fall 2024 Update

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gph at standard cruise (2,100 rpm) Empty Weight: 708 lbs, basic weight (includes oil and trapped fuel) Gross Weight L-4H: 1,220 lbs Full Load Stall Speed: 37.5 gph at take-off (2,300 rpm), 4.27

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know.

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Plane and Pilot

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs. Empty Weight: 840 lbs.

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