Cirrus VK-30

The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher propeller homebuilt aircraft originally sold as a kit by Cirrus Design. As a kit aircraft the VK-30 is a relatively obscure design with few completed aircraft flying. Its most important legacy is that the work done on designing and marketing the aircraft convinced the designers that the best way to proceed in the future was with a more conventional layout and with a certified production aircraft.

The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher propeller. Pusher configuration ... Klapmeier from Wisconsin's Ripon College and Dale Klapmeier who was attending the ...1
Cirrus VK-30 N52TH Cirrus VK-30 N52TH was built by Thomas Hastings in 1999. Its serial number is 143. RV-6 N633DM RV-6 N633DM was buiklt in 2005.2
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The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher propeller homebuilt aircraft originally sold as a kit by Cirrus Design.4
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Made by Cirrus Aircraft.

This is a Cirrus VK-30, the 6-seat homebuilt design that launched the Cirrus Design Corp. It's certainly among the sleekest homebuilts ever designed.6
The homebuilt Cirrus VK-30 is the plane that started it all for Cirrus Design, which is now selling more single-engine planes than Cessna.7
Cirrus VK-30 in cruise and a P-41 Mustang flying over head, it's a truly stunning representation of the varied aircraft actively flying from the world's busiest general 8
called a Cirrus VK-30, which meant nothing to Neil, but Alan seemed to groove on it.9
The sleek Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt features a pusher engine and seats six. The VK-30 launched Cirrus Design, today's largest-selling manufacturer of single-engine aircraft.10
Height Main
325.12
Designer
Jeff Viken
Alan and Dale Klapmeier
Length Alt
8.00 m
Max Takeoff Weight Main
3600.0
Jet Or Prop
prop
Range Main
1300.0
Loaded Weight Main
3600.0
Height Alt
3.28 m
Type Of Prop
constant speed
Never Exceed Speed Alt
km-h
Loading Main
29
Introduction
1989
Capacity
four passengers
Max Speed Main
15000.0
Max Takeoff Weight Alt
1630.0
Number Built
about 13
Crew
one pilot
Never Exceed Speed Main
mph
Climb Rate Main
1500.0
Area Main
126.0
Span Alt
12.20 m
Plane Or Copter?
plane
Power Alt
223.0
Engine(prop)
Continental IO-550
Manufacturer
Cirrus Aircraft
First Flight
11
Loaded Weight Alt
1630.0
Power Main
300hp
Number Of Props
1
Climb Rate Alt
7.7 m-s
Length Main
792.48
Span Main
1209.04
Area Alt
11.7 m²
Range Alt
2106.0
Max Speed Alt
405.0
Empty Weight Main
2400.0
Category
Cirrus aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Pusher aircraft
United States civil utility aircraft 1980-1989
Empty Weight Alt
1087.0
Loading Alt
143

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