Boisavia Anjou

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B.260 Anjou
RoleCivil utility aircraft
Manufacturer Boisavia, SIPA
First flight2 June 1956
Number built1

The Boisavia B.260 Anjou (later developed by SIPA as the Sipavia Anjou) was a four-seat twin-engine light aircraft developed in France in the 1950s. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional configuration with retractable tricycle undercarriage. Intended by Boisavia as a touring aircraft, it did not find a market and only the single prototype was constructed. At this point, the firm sold the design to SIPA, which modified the design and re-engined it with Lycoming O-360 engines, but found that they could not sell it either. At a time when the twin-engine light plane market was already dominated by all-metal American aircraft, the Anjou's fabric-over-tube construction was something of an anachronism, and all development was soon ceased. Plans to develop a stretched version with three extra seats and Potez 4D engines were also abandoned.

Contents

Variants

Specifications (B.260)

Data fromJane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59 [1]

General characteristics

(SNECMA licence-built )

Performance

0.833 m/s (3 ft/s) on one engine at 1,500 m (4,900 ft)

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References

  1. Bridgman, Leonard, ed. (1957). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59. London: Jane's All the World's Aircraft Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 143.

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