Davis DA-5

DA-5
Role	Sport aircraft
Manufacturer	Homebuilt
Designer	Leeon D. Davis
First flight	22 July 1974

The Davis DA-5 is a single-seat sport aircraft designed in the United States in the 1970s and marketed for homebuilding. Like designer Leeon D. Davis's successful DA-2, it is a low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage and a V-tail, but with a much narrower fuselage accommodating only the pilot, and a lengthened nose. Design work was carried out in 1972, but the prototype was not built until 1974, when it was completed in only 67 days.

Specifications (prototype)

General characteristics

• Crew: One pilot
• Length: 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
• Wingspan: 15 ft 7 in (4.76 m)
• Height: 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m)
• Wing area: 57 ft² (5.3 m²)
• Empty weight: 460 lb (208 kg)
• Gross weight: 775 lb (351 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 65 hp (49 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 160 mph (257 km/h)
• Range: 450 miles (725 km)
• Service ceiling: 14,500 ft (4,420 m)

References

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. pp. 305. 
• Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1977-78. London: Jane's Yearbooks. pp. 534–35.