Max Plan PF.204 Busard | |
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The sole PF.204 Busard stored at Mitry-Mory airfield near Paris in May 1957 | |
Role | light sporting monoplane |
National origin | France |
Manufacturer | Max Plan |
Designer | Max Plan |
First flight | 5 June 1952 |
Introduction | 1952 |
Retired | by 1963 |
Primary user | private pilot owner |
Number built | 1 |
The Max Plan PF.204 Busard was a French-built light sporting monoplane of the early 1950s. Following some modifications it was redesignated as PF.214; a planned derivative, the PF.215, was never made. The plane led to the subsequent construction of the Lefebvre Busard, a single-seat racing aircraft built marketed for homebuilding.
The PF.204 Busard was designed and built by Monsieur Max Plan for personal use as a racing and sporting monoplane. The PF.204 was of all-wood construction with plywood skin. The aircraft was fitted with a fixed cantilever undercarriage enclosed by light alloy fairings. [1]
Only one example of the Busard was completed in 1952. By 1956 it had received several modifications, the most noticeable being a revised engine cowling and enlarged cockpit; at this point it was redesignated the PF. 214. [2] At that time there were plans to replace the Minié with a 90 hp (67 kW) Continental C90 4-cylinder horizontally opposed engine, producing the PF.215.
After some years of active flying, it was placed in storage at Mitry-Mory airfield on the northeast outskirts of Paris by May 1957. It no longer appeared on the French civil aircraft register by 1964. [3] By 2006 the aircraft was in storage at the Musée Regional de l'Air, [4] Angers - Loire Airport, France. [5]
Data from Green (1956)
General characteristics
Performance
Max Plan PF.204 Busard | |
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The sole PF.204 Busard stored at Mitry-Mory airfield near Paris in May 1957 | |
Role | light sporting monoplane |
National origin | France |
Manufacturer | Max Plan |
Designer | Max Plan |
First flight | 5 June 1952 |
Introduction | 1952 |
Retired | by 1963 |
Primary user | private pilot owner |
Number built | 1 |
The Max Plan PF.204 Busard was a French-built light sporting monoplane of the early 1950s. Following some modifications it was redesignated as PF.214; a planned derivative, the PF.215, was never made. The plane led to the subsequent construction of the Lefebvre Busard, a single-seat racing aircraft built marketed for homebuilding.
The PF.204 Busard was designed and built by Monsieur Max Plan for personal use as a racing and sporting monoplane. The PF.204 was of all-wood construction with plywood skin. The aircraft was fitted with a fixed cantilever undercarriage enclosed by light alloy fairings. [1]
Only one example of the Busard was completed in 1952. By 1956 it had received several modifications, the most noticeable being a revised engine cowling and enlarged cockpit; at this point it was redesignated the PF. 214. [2] At that time there were plans to replace the Minié with a 90 hp (67 kW) Continental C90 4-cylinder horizontally opposed engine, producing the PF.215.
After some years of active flying, it was placed in storage at Mitry-Mory airfield on the northeast outskirts of Paris by May 1957. It no longer appeared on the French civil aircraft register by 1964. [3] By 2006 the aircraft was in storage at the Musée Regional de l'Air, [4] Angers - Loire Airport, France. [5]
Data from Green (1956)
General characteristics
Performance