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Following the success of the earlier Airtourer, Millicer designed a four-seat version which he called the Aircruiser. The prototype registered VH-MVR first flew on 18 July 1966. [ 1 ] Like the Airtourer it was a low-wing monoplane with a fixed nosewheel landing gear and powered by a 210 hp (157 kW) Continental IO-360-H piston engine. [ 1 ]
AESL acquired the rights to the design in 1970 and it was used to form the basis of the CT/4 Airtrainer. A total of 168 were completed or significantly completed by Victa in Sydney and a further 80 built by AESL in Hamilton NZ. Actually it would be correct to say that 170 serial numbers were issued by Victa and 80 by AESL.
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 ...
In 1970 Victa was acquired by Sunbeam Corporation Ltd. [15] [3] In 1994 the factory moved to Campsie, and the seven millionth Victa lawnmower was built in 1997. [3] In 1996, the company was sold to GUD Holdings Limited, [16] who sold the Victa Lawn Care business to American-based Briggs & Stratton for A$23 million in 2008.
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 .
The O-200 is an updated and upgraded version of the engine, achieving increased power of 100 hp (75 kW) as a result of higher maximum rpm. The standard and most common model of the engine is the O-200-A; the -B model is designed for a pusher installation, the -C model provides for the installation of a controllable-pitch propeller, and the -D ...
The II/SP is a single pilot version, the improved S/II first flew on February 14, 1984 and the Citation Bravo, a stretched S/II with new avionics and more powerful P&WC PW530A turbofans, first flew on April 25, 1995. The United States Navy adopted a version of the S/II as the T-47A. Production ceased in 2006 after 1,184 of all variants were ...
The Speedlite 550EX (introduced September 1998) is a flash made by Canon for use with their EOS line of cameras, primarily the Canon EOS 3. The 550EX can act as a controller that enables wireless control of other flashes. [25] Until the release of the Speedlite 580EX in late 2004, the 550EX was Canon's top-of-the-line flash.