The Super Cub is without doubt the best known aircraft from the Piper Corporation, the name of which became synonymous with the desire to fly sporting planes. The PA-18 was introduced in 1949 and for decades it determined the image of the Piper Aircraft Corporation. To this day, this immortal aircraft continues to be its own successor. Its simple, robust construction was continually developed and upgraded with more powerful engines. The Super Cub is a strutted high-wing monoplane with tubular steel airframe and fabric cover. Production finally came to an end in the 1990s. In total over 40,000 of the Cub and Super Cub versions were built, which makes it the most numerous aircraft of its class. In addition to civil versions, due to the interest shown by various air forces, military versions were also produced, the best known being the L-18C. This aircraft was also used by the German Air Force for selecting and training aspiring pilots.
Original details:
- Type description: Sportsplane
- Year/Period: 1949 - 1981
- Origin: USA
- Engine capacity: 112 kW
- Speed 209 kph
Model details:
- New tool
- Detailed surfaces with recessed panel lines and fabric texture
- Detailed 4-cylinder engine
- Movable propeller
- Detailed cockpit with 2 seats
- Separate access hatch
- Detailed undercarriage
- Wire mesh structure in cockpit area
- True-to-original representation of panoramic glazed cockpit canopy
- Optional tail wheel
- Separate navigation lights
- Super decals with markings for one German and one British civil version and one Federal German armed forces version
- Scale: 1:32
- No. of parts: 92
- Length: 220 mm
- Wingspan: 338 mm
- Skill Level 4
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