Photograph:
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Country of origin:
Australia
Description:
Single-seat self-launched glider
Power Plant:
Specifications:
- TBA
History:
In early 2015 Morgan Aeroworks of Taree, NSW announced it was planning to put into production an aircraft known as the Shawnee. It was a self-launched glider with an engine mounted behind the cockpit and able to take-off and climb to altitude by a self-sustaining engine. The new design was to be fitted with water bags in the wing and the fuselage.
It was of fibreglass construction but there were no moulds, construction being of all foam sandwich for the wings, the fuselage being of core mat. The fuselage rear cone was one layer of fibreglass with bulkheads flocked in, the nose being a plug attached to the fuselage. The whole aircraft was then layed up and the plug removed. Construction of the prototype began early in 2015 and the Company expected to have this machine completed in mid-2015.
However, in 2017 Morgan Aeroworks closed its business at Taree, NSW, Garry Morgan returning to New Zealand, the business of building the Cheetah and Cougar aircraft as complete aircraft or in kit form being taken over by Wedgetail Aircraft based at Camden, NSW. The situation in relation to the completion of the prototype Shawnee and its further development is not known at this stage.