Davis DA-2

DA-2
Southwest Regional Fly In, Hondo, Texas, 1 Jun 2007
Role	Civil utility aircraft
Manufacturer	Homebuilt
Designer	Leeon D. Davis
First flight	21 May 1966
Number built	ca. 45 by 1985

Davis DA-2 at Airventure 2008.

The Davis DA-2 is a light aircraft designed in the United States in the 1960s and marketed for homebuilding. 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. The pilot and a single passenger sit side-by-side. Construction of the aircraft is metal throughout.

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

Specifications (typical DA-2)

Data from Popular Mechanics August 1973

General characteristics

• Crew: One pilot
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m)
• Wingspan: 19 ft 3 in (5.86 m)
• Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
• Wing area: 83 ft² (7.7 m²)
• Empty weight: 610 lb (277 kg)
• Gross weight: 1,125 lb (510 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 65 hp (49 kW)

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

Performance

• Maximum speed: 120 mph (193 km/h)
• Cruise speed: 110 mph ( km/h)
• Range: 450 miles (725 km)

References

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. pp. 305. 
• Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1985-86. London: Jane's Yearbooks. pp. 587–88. 
• Davisson, Budd (May 1973). "Flying the Davis DA-2A Homebuilt". Air Progress. http://airbum.com/pireps/PirepDavisDA2.html.