Davis DA-2

DA-2
Role Civil utility aircraft
Manufacturer Homebuilt
Designer Leeon D. Davis
First flight 21 May 1966
Primary user Private pilot owners
Number built ca. 45 by 1985
Unit cost
$2300 in 1971[1]
Davis DA-2 at Airventure 2008.
Davis DA-2A

The Davis DA-2 is a light aircraft designed in the United States in the 1960s and was marketed for homebuilding.[2] While it is a low-wing monoplane of largely conventional design with fixed tricycle undercarriage, the DA-2 is given a distinctive appearance by its slab-like fuselage construction and its V-tail.[3] The pilot and a single passenger sit side-by-side. Construction of the aircraft is sheet aluminum throughout, with the sole compound curves formed a fiberglass cowling and fairings.[4]

The DA-3 was a single DA-2 enlarged to accommodate four people. Work proceeded through 1973-74, but the aircraft was never completed.

Operational history

Examples of the DA-2 have been completed in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and are currently (2015) actively flying in those countries.

Variants

Specifications (typical DA-2)

Data from Popular Mechanics August 1973

General characteristics

1 × Continental O200 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 100 hp (75 kW)

Performance

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Air Trails: 18. Winter 1971. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Oshkosh Sport Aircraft Galore". Flight International. 22 August 1977.
  3. ↑ Flying Magazine: 53. October 1966. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Air Progress Sport Aircraft: 41. Winter 1969. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Sources

http://www.yahoogroups.com/da2a Builder Group


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