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Gatard Statoplan Alouette

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AG 01 Statoplan Alouette
Role Sports plane
Manufacturer Homebuilt
Designer Albert Gatard
First flight 1951

The Gatard Statoplan AG 01 Statoplan Alouette was a light, two-seat sports airplane developed in France in the early 1950s and marketed for homebuilding.

Design

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It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of short-coupled design with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Construction was a plywood-covered wooden structure throughout. The variable-incidence horizontal stabiliser was fitted with small endplates to provide extra directional stability but there were no separate elevators.

Specifications

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Data from [1]

General characteristics

  • Crew: two
  • Length: 4.60 m (15 ft 1 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
  • Empty weight: 200 kg (441 lb)
  • Max takeoff weight: 380 kg (838 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × modified Poinsard air-cooled flat-four, 24 kW (32 hp)
  • Propellers: 2-bladed Gatard fixed-pitch wooden propeller

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 138 km/h (86 mph, 75 kn)
  • Cruise speed: 105 km/h (65 mph, 57 kn)

References

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  1. ^ "Gatard AG-01 'Statoplan Alouette' - avion de tourisme - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. 2005-12-13. Retrieved 2019-02-03.

Further reading

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  • Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 415.