Photograph:
Stolp SA-750 Acroduster TOO VH-YEL (c/n 02) at Redcliff, QLD in 2008 (unknown)
Country of origin:
United States of America
Description:
Two-seat light sport biplane
Power Plant:
One 149 kw (200 hp) Lycoming IO-360 four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine
Specifications:
- Wingspan: 6.52 m (21 ft 4 in)
- Length: 5.63 m (18 ft 5 in)
- Wing area: 12.07 m² (130 sq ft)
- Max speed: 298 km/h (185 mph)
- Cruising speed: 249 km/h (155 mph)
- Stalling speed: 89 km/h (55 mph)
- Rate of climb: 610 m/min (2,000 ft/min)
- Service ceiling: 4,877 m (16,000 ft)
- Range: 805 km (500 miles)
- Take-off run: 244 m (800 ft)
- Landing run: 305 m (1,000 ft)
- Empty weight: 499 kg (1,100 lb)
- Loaded weight: 771 kg (1,700 lb)
History:
The Acroduster TOO was one of a series of light sporting aircraft produced by Stolp Starduster Corp of Oroville, California and was a fully aerobatic two-seat aircraft stressed to +9 and -9 G. It had modified symmetrical wings and was of traditional biplane construction with a steel-tube fuselage structure and spruce wing spars. The wing ribs were built of plywood with cap strips. It was supplied in kit form by the manufacturers and was fitted with a Lycoming IO-360 engine of 149 kw (200 hp) but engines ranging from 134 kw to 224 kw (180 hp to 300 hp) could be installed.
A couple of kits have been imported to Australia and the first completed was VH-YEL (c/n 02), registered as an Acroduster II SA-750 completed in 2007 and based at Redcliff, QLD.