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Barrows Bearhawk

The Bearhawk, is a line of light utility aircraft produced by Bearhawk Aircraft of Fairview, Oklahoma. The aircraft is supplied as a kit or as plans for amateur construction.

Design and development

The Bearhawk was designed in the early 1990s as a personal project by Barrows to carry aircraft engines for delivery as freight. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin that is wide and accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing covered in doped aircraft fabric, while the wings are made from aluminum sheet. Its span wing employs a NACA 4412 mod airfoil, has an area of and mounts flaps. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is and standard engines used include the Lycoming O-360 and Lycoming O-540 four-stroke powerplants. Construction time from the supplied kit is 1200 hours.

The prototype was fitted with a Lycoming O-360 burning automotive fuel, but in August 2023, the option of fitting the DeltaHawk DHK180 type certified, two-stroke diesel engine was added.

Operational history

By October 2016, 77 examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and 11 with Transport Canada.

Variants

Bearhawk (4-Place Bearhawk)
Four seat model with a cabin wide and a gross weight of , with 75 reportedly completed and flown by December 2011. Employs a NACA 4412 airfoil.
Bearhawk Bravo
Improved model introduced at AirVenture in July 2016. The wing has a greater span and greater area and employs a Riblett 30-413.5 airfoil, which gives a higher top speed while retaining a low stall speed. The redesigned airframe also uses aluminum fuselage formers, window sills and door sills, replacing the steel formers and sills in the original model, which provides better corrosion resistance and less weight. The landing gear struts are made of heavy-wall round cross section tubing rather than streamlined tubing, which provides more resistance to sideload failure.
Patrol
Two-seats in tandem model with a cabin wide and a gross weight of , with three reportedly completed and flown by December 2011.
Companion
Two-seats in side-by-side configuration model, with a gross weight of . First customer deliveries in October 2019.

Specifications (Bearhawk)

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