Cook Challenger

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JC-1 Challenger
RoleCabin Monoplane
Manufacturer Cook Aircraft Corporation
DesignerJohn Cook
First flightMay 1969
Number built4

The Cook JC-1 Challenger was a 1960s American cabin monoplane built by the Cook Aircraft Corporation.

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Development

John Cook founded the Cook Aircraft Corporation in 1968 at Torrance, California to build and market his JC-1 Challenger cabin monoplane design. [1]

The Challenger was a low-winged cantilever four-seat monoplane with an all-metal construction. It was powered by a single 150 horsepower (110 kW) Lycoming O-320 piston engine and had a fixed nosewheel undercarriage. Two prototypes were built, the first aircraft flew in May 1969. [1] A third prototype was built in 1971 but crashed in 1972 killing the pilot Cook. A fourth modified prototype was built by the company but was never certified and the company stop all design and development in the mid 1970s.

Monoplane Fixed-wing aircraft with a single main wing plane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with a single main wing plane, in contrast to a biplane or other multiplane, each of which has multiple planes.

Lycoming O-320 family of flat-four piston aircraft engines

The Lycoming O-320 is a large family of 92 different naturally aspirated, air-cooled, four-cylinder, direct-drive engines commonly used on light aircraft such as the Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee. Different variants are rated for 150 or 160 horsepower. As implied by the engine's name, its cylinders are arranged in horizontally opposed configuration and a displacement of 320 cubic inches (5.24 L).

Tricycle landing gear aircraft undercarriage arranged with main gear under the wing or fuselage and a third set under the nose

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Specifications

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1971–72 [1]

General characteristics

Airfoil cross-sectional shape of a wing, blade (of a propeller, rotor, or turbine), or sail

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Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Taylor 1971, pp. 292–293.


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