Flying Legend Tucano Replica

The Flying Legend Tucano Replica (English: Toucan) is an Italian light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Flying Legend of Caltagirone and introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2011. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.[1][2]

Flying Legend is a collaborative project between MGA and Barum.[1]

Design and development

The Tucano Replica is scale replica of the 1980s vintage Embraer EMB 312 Tucano turboprop trainer and features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. A fixed gear model has been developed for the US light sport aircraft market.[1][2]

The aircraft is made from 2024-T3 aluminum and 6061-T6 aluminum sheet. Its 8.41 m (27.6 ft) span wing has an area of 10.0 m² (108 sq ft) and is equipped with flaps. Standard engines available are the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant, with the 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 and 125 hp (93 kW) D-Motor LF39 optional.[1][2][3]

Data from Bayerl and Flying Legend[1][4]

General characteristics

Crew: one
Capacity: one passenger
Length: 7.10 m (23 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in)
Height: 2.43 m (8 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 10.0 m² (108 sq ft)
Empty weight: 371 kg (818 lb)
Gross weight: 595 kg (1,312 lb)
Fuel capacity: 84 litres (18 imp gal; 22 US gal)
Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 912ULS four cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke aircraft engine, 75 kW (101 hp)
Propellers: 3-bladed composite

Performance

Cruise speed: 240 km/h (150 mph, 130 kn)
Stall speed: 75 km/h (47 mph, 40 kn) flaps up
Never exceed speed: 295 km/h (183 mph, 159 kn)
Range: 900 km (560 mi, 490 nmi)
g limits: +4.4/-2.2
Rate of climb: 5.5 m/s (1,080 ft/min)
Wing loading: 59.5 kg/m² (12.2 lb/sq ft)

Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 54. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 108. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
Flying Legend (2011). "Tucano Replica Kit". Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
Flying Legend (2011). "Tucano Replica Specifications". Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2012.

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