Brumby 600

Brumby 600
Role Light sport aircraft
National origin Australia
Manufacturer Brumby Aircraft Australia
Designer Phil Goard
First flight October 2005
Developed from Goair Trainer

The Brumby Aircraft Brumby 600, also known as the Brumby LSA 600 is an Australian single-engined, two-seat, training or touring cabin monoplane. The aircraft is built by Brumby Aircraft Australia as a production or kit aircraft at Cowra Airport near Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. Designed to meet regulations governing light sport aircraft (LSA), it was developed from the Goair Trainer.

Design and development

The Brumby was developed from the GoAir GT-1 Trainer, which was built at Bankstown Airport in Sydney during the late 1990s.[1][2]

The Brumby 600 is a low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction. It has a fixed tricycle landing gear and an enclosed cockpit for two in side-by-side configuration with a forward-sliding canopy for access; sideways-opening gull-wing doors are available as an optional kit. It can be powered by a 100 to 116 hp (75 to 87 kW) Lycoming IO-233, 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS or 120 hp (89 kW) Jabiru 3300 engine, driving a wooden two-blade propeller.[3]

A high-wing version has been developed as the Brumby 610 Evolution.

Specifications

Data from Brumby Aircraft Australia,[3] Jane's All The World's Aircraft[4]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 2 (including pilot)
  • Length: 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.53 m (28 ft 0 in)
  • Height: 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)
  • Wing area: 9.75 m2 (105 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 350 kg (771 lb)
  • Gross weight: 600 kg (1,322 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × various piston engines, see text.
  • Maximum speed: 259 km/h (161 mph, 140 kn)
  • Cruise speed: 204 km/h (127 mph, 110 kn)
  • Stall speed: 75 km/h (46 mph, 40 kn)
  • Endurance: 5 hours
  • Rate of climb: 5.1 m/s (1,000 ft/min)

References

  1. ^ Australian Aviation 2001, p.88
  2. ^ Australian Aviation 2009, p.52
  3. ^ a b "Brumby 600 LSA". brumbyaircraft.com.au. Brumby Aircraft Australia Pty. Ltd. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  4. ^ Jackson, Paul (2014). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2014-2015. IHS Jane's.
  • Arbon, Tony (2001). "Australian Civil Aircraft Register Update". Australian Aviation (April 2001). Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd.: 87–89.
  • Zupp, Owen (2009). "Brumby LSA: An Australian thoroughbred". Australian Aviation (June 2009). Phantom Media Pty. Ltd.: 52–56.


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