Procaer Picchio

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name=F.15 Picchio


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type=Utility aircraft
national origin=Italy
manufacturer=Procaer, General Avia, HOAC
designer=Stelio Frati
first flight=7 May avyear|1959
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number built=ca.50
variants with their own articles=The Procaer F.15 "Picchio" (Italian: "Woodpecker") was a utility aircraft developed in Italy in the late 1950s as a further development of Stelio Frati's Falco and Nibbio designs. Like its predecessors, the Picchio was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane of exceptionally clean lines, with retractable tricycle undercarriage. Early versions of the Picchio shared the same wooden construction as the earlier designs, but had a thin aluminium skin over the top of their plywood skins. The F.15E and F.15F, however, were all-metal.

Production of the early, wooden Picchios was carried out by Procaer in Milan, but in the mid 1960s, Frati established General Avia as his own factory to build his designs, commencing with the F.15E. Only a few examples were built, however, and the design lay dormant until revived by an Austrian company, HOAC in the mid 1990s. HOAC arranged to have the two-seat F.15F model built at the JSC Sokol plant in Niznij Novgorod, but ran out of money, leaving Sokol with unsold airframes in various states of completion.

Variants

* F.15 - prototype with Lycoming O-320 engine and three seats (1 built)
* F.15A - initial production version with Lycoming O-360 engine and four seats (10 built by Procaer)
* F.15B - similar to F.15A but with larger-span wings and fuel tanks relocated from fuselage to wings (20 built by Procaer)
* F.15C - version with Continental IO-470 engine and tip tanks (1 built)
* F.15D - proposed version similar to F.15B with Franklin engine (not built)
* F.15E - all-metal version of F.15B with Continental IO-520K engine (1 built by General Avia)
* F.15F Delfino - two-seat version of F.15E with bubble canopy (1 built by General Avia)
** F.15F Excalibur - F.15F built by JSC Sokol for HOAC

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crew=One pilot
capacity=3 passengers
length m=7.49
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empty weight kg=694
empty weight lb=1,532
gross weight kg=1,150
gross weight lb=2,535
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eng1 type=Lycoming O-360-A1A horizontally-opposed four-cylinder aircooled piston engine
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max speed mph=185
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range km=1,590
range miles=990
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ceiling m=5,180
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