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Normand Dube Aerocruiser Plus

The Normand Dube Aerocruiser Plus (also called the Aerocruiser 180) is a four-seat Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed by Normand Dube and produced by Aviation Normand Dube of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. The aircraft is a development of the two-seat Norman Dube Aerocruiser.

Design and development

The Aerocruiser Plus features a "V" strut-braced high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft can be fitted with floats, wheels or skis.

The aircraft is made with a welded 4130 steel tubing fuselage and a riveted 2024 aluminum wing. Its span wing employs a NACA 4412 airfoil, has an area of and mounts flaps. The cabin width is . The engine used on the prototype is a Lycoming O-360 four-stroke powerplant.

Operational history

Reviewers Roy Beisswenger and Marino Boric described the design in a 2015 review as "outback-friendly".

By March 2017, one example, the prototype had been registered with Transport Canada.

Specifications (Aerocruiser Plus)

References

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