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Aircraft Performance (Factory Data) Take-off weight, kg 2050 Payload, kg 385 Engine type TCM-IO-360ES Number and power, h.p. 2 x 210 Propeller three-blade, variable pitch Maximum cruise speed, km/h 265 Operating ceiling, m up to 3000 Maximum range with onboard fuel capacity 245 kg, & payload 265 kg), km 1350 Take-off speed (ground/water), km/h 126/124 Landing speed (ground/water), km/h 123/115 Take-off distance up to H=15 m, G=2050 kg (ground/water), m 440/650 Landing distance from H=9 m with propeller thrust reverse, G=1950 kg (ground/water), m 460/570 Seaworthiness, sea state 2 Depth of water reservoir when operated, m 1.5 Cabin length, m 6.0 Cabin height, m 1.82 Cabin width, m 1.55 Volume of luggage compartment, cub. m 1.33 Crew, prs. 2 FMI: http://www.aviation.ru/Be/ http://www.beriev.com/core.html |
Russian Twin Amphib Ready to Probe US Market Beriyev May Get Amphib to US Shores A Lyuba Pronina, MT article alerted us: "Gennady Panatov, general director of the Beriyev design bureau, announced that both of his Taganrog, Rostov region-based company's amphibious planes now have CIS certification and he is looking to win U.S. certification to sell the aircraft abroad. The planes are the multipurpose Be-200 and the six-seat Be-103, built at plants in Irkutsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur, respectively." While the Be-200, a 64-passenger BIG amphib, costs nearly $25 million, the smaller Be-103 looks like it may hold promise for expanded sales. The six-seat twin tractor design, flying for just over four years, is set to sell for between half and three quarters of a million bucks -- a steal, in other words, when compared with other amphibs of lesser capacity, or transport land planes of similar size, although its 165mph power cruise speed won't exactly run up the tailpipes of too many land-based 6-seat people-haulers. On the other hand, it's able to do things no land plane can... Whether it does indeed clear its certification hurdles, establish a viable distribution / parts / maintenance network, and actually get delivered for anywhere near that price, is a tantalizing prospect. At least the Teledyne Continental IO-360-ES power won't pose any logistics problems. Russia, with relatively few airfields and relatively much water, compared to its vast area, is as addicted to seaplanes as Alaska, and for the same reasons. Russia, though, has an indigenous amphibian base that dwarfs that of any other country; relatively fewer land planes fly from floats, compared to the North American fleet. Panatov says he holds firm orders for a couple of the planes, from a US buyer. All he has to do, he explains, is get them FAA certified. He plans on doing that by the end of this year. CIS certification, both documentation and test data, are just about FAA-equivalent, he implies. The Be-103 was designed, from the water up, to comply with FAR Part 23, he notes. |
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