Spartan 12W Executive
| Spartan 12W Executive | |
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| Spartan 12W Executive | |
| Role | Personal luxury transport |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Spartan Aircraft Company |
| First flight | circa 1946[1] |
| Status | only one prototype completed |
| Produced | circa 1946 |
| Number built | one |
| Developed from | Spartan Executive |
The Spartan 12W Executive[1] was a tricycle gear post-war development of the Spartan 7W Executive, produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company. The 12W was intended to have higher performance and be more economical than the 7W.[1]
Design and Development
The Spartan 12W Executive features magnesium alloy wings and tail surfaces and range extending wing tip-tanks. The magnesium alloy skin quickly corroded and was replaced with aluminum alloy. The tip-tanks were also removed. The sole example was owned by Spartan Aircraft and employed at their flight training school.[1]
After building just one model 12W the manufacturer moved on to focus on constructing travel-trailers instead and lost interest in luxury aircraft.[2]
Aircraft on display
The sole Spartan 12W Executive produced was restored in 1967 and is on static display at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium.[2]
Specifications
Data from Eckland[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 3 passengers
- Length: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
- Wingspan: 39 ft 0 in (11.89 m)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 450 hp (340 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 160 mph (257 km/h; 139 kn)
- Stall speed: 70 mph (61 kn; 113 km/h)
References
- 1 2 3 4 "American airplanes: Spartan". Aerofiles.com. 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
- 1 2 Stewart, DR (28 August 2012). "One-of-a-kind Spartan Model 12 plane comes home to Tulsa". Tulsa World. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ↑ Eckland, K.O. "Spartan". Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- Eckland, K.O. "Spartan". Retrieved 10 June 2013.
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