Maule Air

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Maule Air, Inc., located in Moultrie, Georgia, USA is a manufacturer of popular light, single-engined STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) aircraft. Founded in 1941 by Belford D. Maule, it is still a family-owned enterprise.

[edit] The Maule in popular culture

A Maule MT-7-235 owned by the Civil Air Patrol
A Maule MT-7-235 owned by the Civil Air Patrol

A Maule M-5 was featured in the Burt Reynolds movie Cannonball Run. The aircraft demonstrates its extraordinary STOL capabilities by landing on, and taking off from, a small town street among trees and buildings and skirting under power lines.

An amphibious Maule crashes into a tower on an oil tanker in the Sandra Bullock movie Speed 2. An amphibious Maule was also featured in the Danny Glover movie Gone Fishin'.

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Maule MX-7-235 Super Rocket, built 1987

A Maule amphibian

Maule M7-235B Super Rocket, built 1999
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