CAB Supercab

GY-30 Supercab
Role	Utility aircraft
Manufacturer	Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn (CAB)
Designer	Yves Gardan
First flight	5 February 1954
Number built	7
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.

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.^[1]

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: one pilot
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 5.50 m (18 ft 0 in)
• Wingspan: 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in)
• Height: 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
• Wing area: 10.4 m² (112 ft²)
• Empty weight: 396 kg (873 lb)
• Gross weight: 600 kg (1,323 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental C90 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder air-cooled engine, 67 kW (90 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 275 km/h (171 mph)
• Range: 600 km (374 miles)
• Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,400 ft)

Notes

References

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. pp. 123. 
• Simpson, R. W. (1995). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing. pp. 409. 
• CAB Supercab on aviafrance.com
• Website of the Association des Proprietaires et Amateurs d'Avions Gardan

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