Mamba | |
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Role | Two-seat light cabin monoplane |
National origin | Australia |
Manufacturer | Melbourne Aircraft Corporation (Mamba Aircraft Company) Australian Aircraft Industries |
Designer | Jess Smith [1] Stress Engineer Merv Reed |
First flight | 25 January 1989 |
Status | development continuing |
Number built | 4 |
Developed into | civil and military |
The MAC Mamba, Mamba Range is an Australian two-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Melbourne Aircraft Corporation. [2]
The Mamba is a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane designed over two years and first flown on 25 January 1989. It has fixed tricycle landing gear and is powered by a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine. It has an enclosed glazed cabin with side-by-side configuration seating for two. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with stressed aluminum skin. [1] It was intended to introduce four-seat and military versions of the Mamba. [2]
The military version was built under contract by Australian Aircraft Industries as the AA-2S Mamba powered by an IO-360.[ citation needed ]
Data fromJane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90 [2]
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