Photograph:
Not available yet
Country of origin:
Australia
Description:
Single-seat light sport aircraft
Power Plant:
One 48 kw (64 hp) Rotax 582 two-cylinder, two-stroke, liquid-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 6.40 m (21 ft)
- Length: 5.48 m (18 ft)
- Height: 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 6.22 m² (67 sq ft)
- Max speed: 193 km/h (120 mph)
- Cruising speed: 145 km/h (90 mph)
- Rate of climb: 305 m/min (1,000 ft/min)
- Service ceiling: 4,572 m (15,000 ft)
- Take-off distance: 168 m (550 ft)
- Landing distance: 198 m (650 ft)
- Fuel capacity: 45.4 litres (10 Imp gals)
- Empty weight: 150 kg (330 lb)
- Loaded weight: 272 kg (600 lb)
History:
The Slepcev Me 109G-2 was a 75% per cent scale replica of the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 fighter aircraft of World War II. Like the Andiel Bf 109 scale replica, it was designed for the amateur builder and was available from the manufacturer in kit form from the Company’s facility at Beechwood, NSW. It is not known how many examples were complete but it is believed only a single example was completed. The first aircraft was built by Nestor Slepcev and had a turbular steel fuselage covered with aluminium, plywood and fabric. Parts of other aircraft were used, including the wing which was built using the tailplane from a retired Piper PA-31 Chieftain recovered from an Oxley Airlines life expired airframe. New wingtips, ailerons and flaps were installed but it had a fixed tricycle undercarriage.
The engine installed was the Rotax 582 providing 48 kw (64 hp), this being a two-cylinder, two-stroke, rotary intake valve, liquid-cooled, gear-reduction drive engine manufactured by BR-Rotax GmbH & co in Austria, this unit displacing 580.7 cm³ (35.44 cub in), weighed 50 kg (110 lb) and drove an IVO in-flight adjustable propeller. Mr Slepcev has been known for designing, building and developing the Slepcev Storch series but eventually he and his company moved to Serbia where kits of Storch aircraft continued. It is not known if the kit of the Me 109G-2 is still available. The prototype was registered with Recreation Aviation Australia (RAA) on 20 February 2001 as 19-3501 (c/n 1) but the registration lapsed on 27 February 2004. Ultimate fate of this aircraft is not known.