Pützer Elster

The Pützer Elster is a single-engine high-wing monoplane for general aviation the German company Alfons Pützer KG.

History

1957 wrote the German Air Force from an order for a sport plane with two adjacent seats. For this, the company developed Alfons Pützer in Bonn together with Fritz Raab and Gerhard Siegel from the Motorraab (Mora ), a motorized further development of the glider double Raab, the Pützer Elster. She took over from the Doppelraab the (albeit enhanced ) Structural, but got a new hull in plywood - shell construction with adjacent pilot seats that could be reached by two large upward-opening flap doors. A handle in the cockpit of the nose wheel was controlled and cables of the main wheels of the drum brake to be actuated. The Magpie V1 ( D- eJob ) was finished just in time before the presentation date and launched on November 11, 1957 at the airfield Bonn / Hangelar for its maiden flight. The Magpie beat off other machines through and was able to record an order of 21 aircraft by the Bundeswehr. However, it was 978/1 built with 48 kW only another item (Elster A65, V2, D- EFYP ) with the more powerful Porsche, but which also turned out to be underpowered. Then, the V3 is currently under construction, was converted to the 70 kW Continental C90- 12F and with shorter and smaller ailerons and larger vertical tail. The first intended for the German Army series machine corresponded to the V3 and had its maiden flight on 10 January 1959. Altogether 33 specimens of Elster B built and sold nine of them to private individuals. Starting in 1962, the machine should come as Elster C as a tow plane to use. For a magpie B ( D- EDIQ ) was fitted as a test pattern with a Lycoming O -320 engine with 110 kW, which first flew on July 28, 1963 and 1964 C was admitted as a magpie. The Magpie C was built in eleven copies and some Elster B upgraded to this standard.

The magpie is the first in Germany after the Second World War, developed and produced in larger quantities engine aircraft. It to 1967 a total of 45 copies were made ​​. The aircraft was used in addition to the use in the Armed Forces for training purposes in the Air Force sports groups in the civil sector.

Since 17 September 2010, the restored Pützer Elster B D Jürgen ELKY Gassebner acts as a "flying ambassador " of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen.

Specifications

Accidents

On June 26, 2010 crashed near constancy of a Pützer Elster ( D- EDIQ ) from where the two occupants died.