CAB Supercab

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GY-30 Supercab
CAB GY-30 Supercab.jpg
RoleUtility aircraft
Manufacturer Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn (CAB)
Designer Yves Gardan
First flight5 February 1954 [1]
Number built7
Developed into SIPA 1000

The CAB GY-30 Supercab was a two-seat light aircraft built in France in 1954, as a further development of the CAB Minicab. The design was performed by Yves Gardan, a onetime employee of French aeronautical company SIPA. Changes incorporated in the Supercab (from the Minicab) included a more powerful engine, greater wingspan, manually retractable undercarriage, and slotted flaps that replaced the split flaps of the Minicab.

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Seven units were constructed by CAB before the rights to the design were sold to Gardan's former employer (SIPA), who developed the design into the SIPA 1000. However, due to a downturn in the light aircraft market at that time, only three of the SIPA variant were produced before production was halted. [2]


Specifications

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57 [3]

General characteristics

Performance

Notes

  1. de Narbonne 2014, p. 79
  2. Website of the Association des Proprietaires et Amateurs d'Avions Gardan
  3. Bridgman 1956, p. 133.

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