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Both Victa and Transavia Corporation had requested subsidies for Australian-designed and -built light aircraft, with Victa seeking a subsidy of up to 60% of the factory cost. [4] Following the sale of the design rights of the Airtourer to Aero Engine Services Limited (AESL) of New Zealand, the rights to the Aircruiser were also sold to AESL in ...
Victa is an Australian manufacturer of outdoor garden equipment, including petrol, electric, and battery-powered lawn mowers, edgers, trimmers, and chainsaws. The brand is best known as a manufacturer of rotary lawn mowers.
Pacific Aerospace Corporation predecessor, AESL, derived the CT/4 from the earlier four-seat prototype Victa Aircruiser, itself a development of the original Victa Airtourer two-seat light tourer, 172 of which had been built in Australia from 1961 to 1966 before the rights to the Airtourer and Aircruiser were sold to the New Zealand company AESL, which built a total of 80 Airtourers at its ...
The first intended product was the Victa R-2, a four-seat single-engine light aircraft designed by Luigi Pellarini. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Pellarini's design was a low-winged, all metal tractor configuration monoplane with a T-tail , powered by a 180 hp (130 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-four piston engine driving a constant-speed propeller .