Tapanee Levitation 4

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Levitation 4
RoleFour-seat homebuilt STOL aircraft
National originCanada
Manufacturer Tapanee Aviation
DesignerMichel Lequin
First flight2002
Number built3 (Dec 2011) [1]
Developed from Tapanee Pegazair-100
Variants Tapanee Levitation 2

The Tapanee Levitation 4 is a Canadian four-seat STOL aircraft designed to be homebuilt by Michel Lequin for Tapanee Aviation of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Design and development

A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing, leading edge slats and Junkers flaperons. Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller. The Leviation has a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel and a cabin holding a pilot and three passengers in two rows of side-by-side seating. By December 2004 five kits had been sold. [2] [3] [4]

Specifications

Data from [2] Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009

General characteristics

Performance

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 71. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  2. 1 2 3 Jackson 2008, p. 87
  3. 1 2 Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 73. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  4. 1 2 Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 129. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN   1368-485X
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