Photograph:
Three view drawing of the proposed PL-13 (Transavia)
Country of origin:
Australia
Description:
Four-seat single-engine cabin monoplane
Power Plant:
One 212 kw (285 hp) Continental O-520-A six-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 9.75 m (32 ft)
- Length: 7.59 m (24 ft 11 in)
- Height: 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
- Max speed: 386 km/h (240 mph)
- Max cruising speed: 357 km/h (222 mph)
- Initial rate of climb: 335 m/min (1100 ft/min)
- Service ceiling: 5,950 m (19,500 ft)
- Range: 1,600 km (1,000 miles)
- Empty weight: 717 kg (1,580 lb)
- Loaded weight: 1,234 kg (2,720 lb)
History:
The PL-13 was one of many designs by the profilic designer, Luigi Pellarini. It was a four-seat monoplane. Little is known about the design but it seems it was a development of the Victa R-2, also designed by Mr Pllarini, the latter being one of the aircraft built and flight tested by Victa Consolidated Industries but which was never developed and only did some flight testing before it was shelved. The PL-13 made many changes to deal with the deficiencies that were found to be a problem in the earlier R-2 but it was never built and was just a future proposal which never made it to the hardware stage.
The aircraft differed from the R-2 in having a longer fuselage to deal with comments made about the cramped cockpit in the R-2. It deleted the wing bracing struts and the wingtips were swept back. Transavia supplied information about the design to Janes All the Worlds Aircraft for the 1965 edition but by 1967 it seems development had been discontinued. Over the years a number of historians have attempted to record the history of most of the aircraft designed by Luigi Pellarini but to date little is known about some of the designs, particularly the PL-13.