PAC Fletcher
The Fletcher FU -24 (now PAC Fletcher ) is an agricultural aircraft produced by the American manufacturer Fletcher. It is used with the appropriate conversion kits as freight, passenger and Absetzflugzeug.
History
The machine is similar to the Fletcher FD -25 and in 1954 was designed by John Thorpe at Fletcher as agricultural aircraft for use in New Zealand. The first flight took place on 14 June 1954, the admission on 22 July 1955. After only eleven piece of single seater FU -24 and six two-seat FU -24A production was outsourced in 1964 to New Zealand, where the machines were delivered as kits. The production rights were later acquired by different companies, so in 1964 by the company Air Parts, 1972 NZ Aerospace and, from 1982 Pacific Aerospace. Some of the machines were equipped with Lycoming or Continental engines with a power 165-295 kW. As of 1970, six prototypes with propeller turbines ( PT6A or TPE 331) were tested after their successful testing of many piston engine aircraft were converted. As a PAC Cresco is produced with a Lycoming LTP -101 turbine, a modernized version.
Variants
- FU -24: Single-seat agricultural aircraft
- FU -24A Utility: six- seater multi-purpose aircraft.
- FU -24- 950: Two-seat agricultural aircraft
- FU 24-954: Improved version.
- Pegasus 1: Military version, developed by Frontier Aerospace in Long Beach, California