CAB Minicab

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name=GY-20 Minicab


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type=Utility aircraft
manufacturer=Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn
designer=Yves Gardan
first flight=1 February 1949
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number built=30 + ca. 130 homebuilt
variants with their own articles=The CAB Minicab was a two-seat light aircraft built in France in the years following World War II. Its design was in essence a scaled-down version of a plane that Yves Gardan had designed for SIPA, the SIPA 90. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. The pilot and passenger sat side-by-side and accessed the cockpit via a one-piece perspex canopy that hinged forwards. Gardan's intention was to produce a low-cost, easy to fly, easy to maintain aircraft with the possibility of homebuilding; a "Simca of the air".

The Minicab's first flight took place on 1 February 1949 with Max Fischl at the controls. French type certification was obtained in mid-April and a period of intense promotional activity followed. By the end of 1950, a Minicab had won the "coupe de vitesse de Deauville" (Deauville Cup for speed), and the "grand prix aérien de Vichy" (Vichy Aerial Prize). The following year, a Minicab broke the world air distance record for its class (1,825 km, 1,138 miles) and in 1952 the world airspeed record for its class over a 2,000 km circuit, with an average speed of (183 km/h, 114 mph).

Variants

* GY-20 - original production model
** GY-201 - refined version with strengthened undercarriage, split flaps, and castering tailwheel

pecifications (GY-20)

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crew=one pilot
capacity=1 passenger
length m=5.45
length ft=17
length in=11
span m=7.60
span ft=24
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height m=1.65
height ft=5
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wing area sqm=10.0
wing area sqft=108
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empty weight kg=265
empty weight lb=584
gross weight kg=480
gross weight lb=1,058

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max speed kmh=198
max speed mph=123
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range km=500
range miles=310
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ceiling m=4,000
ceiling ft=13,120
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References

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* [http://www.aviafrance.com/1611.htm aviafrance.com]
* " [http://www.veterano.ch/minicab.htm Oldtimer-Homepage der Segel- und Motorfluggruppe Veterano, Birrfeld] "
* " [http://www.musee-aviation-angers.com/avions.php?sid=44 Musée Régional de l'Air d'Angers-Marcé] "
* [http://www.gardanhorizon.flyer.co.uk/gy80type.htm The Rochester GYAT Flying Group] ]

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