Engineering:Bonsall DB-1 Mustang

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DB-1 Mustang
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Role Homebuilt aircraft
National origin England
Designer Dave Bonsall
Introduction 1991

The Bonsall DB-1 Mustang is a single place, semi-scale P-51 Mustang replica homebuilt aircraft.[1]

Design and development

The Bonsall DB-1 Mustang was constructed over a 16-year span in England by designer Dave Bonsall. The completed aircraft was equipped with a Lycoming O-360 engine obtained from a Socata TB-10 Tobago. It is a single-seat, low-wing aircraft featuring retractable conventional landing gear.[2]

Specifications (DB-1 Mustang)

Data from Sport Aviation

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 Horizontally opposed piston aircraft engine, 130 kW (180 hp)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

  1. Ron Smith. British built aircraft. p. 168. 
  2. "ROLLICKING GOOD WROUGHTON!". Sport Aviation: 39. September 1991. 

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