TUCANO R, Geronimo Experimental Aircraft Build Center, Arizona
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Tucano R Experimental Aircraft
Flying Legend Tucano Replica, Geronimo Experimental Aircraft Build Center.
The Flying Legend Tucano Replica (English: Toucan) is an Italian light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Flying Legend of Caltagirone and introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2011.
The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
The Tucano Replica is scale replica of the 1980s vintage Embraer EMB 312 Tucano turboprop trainer and features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
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A fixed gear model has been developed for the US light sport aircraft market.[1][2] The aircraft is made from 2024-T3 aluminum and 6061-T6 aluminum sheet. Its 8.41 m (27.6 ft) span wing has an area of 10.0 m2 (108 sq ft) and is equipped with flaps.
Standard engines available are the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant, with the 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 and 125 hp (93 kW) D-Motor LF39 optional
Basic Tucano Kit – 1200 hrs Each kit provided by Flying Legend includes the fuselage kit, the wing kit, the empennage kit, the flight control kit, the fixed landing gear kit, the aluminium tank kit and the canopy kit.
Each kit includes also all the hardware parts (bolts, nuts, rivets and so on) required to assembly the aircarft. A amateur builder requires approximately 1200 hrs to complete the basic kit.
The standard kit does not include the retractable gear. The retractable gear has to be selected in the option list Entirely made in Aluminium 2024-T3/6061 -T6, the structure is calculated for a MTOW of 1433 lb and a load factor of +6/-3G or 1653 lb with a load factor of 4.4/-2.2G The basic kit is approved by the FAA and is included in the Revised listing of Amateur build Aircraft kits.
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