The Historical P-51 Mustang is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by the Historical Aircraft Corporation of Nucla, Colorado. The aircraft is a 62.5% scale replica of the original North American P-51 Mustang and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 177. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.
Design and development The aircraft features a cantilever low-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing covered in a shell of polyurethane foam and fiberglass. Its span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cockpit width is . The standard engine used is the Ford Motor Company V-6 automotive conversion powerplant.
The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is .
The aircraft has fairly lengthy runway requirements with a standard day sea level take-off distance of and a landing distance of .
The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, instruments and avionics. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.
Specifications (P-51)
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