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The prototype Aircorp B2-N Bushmaster two seat primary trainer and utility aircraft. Aircraft such as this, the Mamba and Sentinel could well Usher in a new era of Australian produced FAR23 light aircraft.
Bushmaster Flies in Queensland
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New GA Design Takes Wing
Brisbane based Aircorp Pty Ltd has begun test flying its new Utility category general aviation trainer and rural support aircraft.
Pre-certification testing of the company’s ‘Bushmaster’ 82-N prototype began on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast during late October. Aircorp has maintained a very low profile during the design and development stages of the B-2 series, preferring to forego any publicity of the new aircraft until test flights began. Although a number of Australian companies are developing lightweight aircraft in the ‘heavy ultralight’ class, Aircorp is quick to point out that the Bushmaster 8-2 series (which ultimately will include two plus two, three and four place aircraft) falls outside that category.
“The Bushmaster is a full-blown GA aircraft, not an ultralight, a homebuilt or a kitplane, ” a company spokesman said. “It has been designed to FAR23, an internationally accepted airworthiness criteria, to provide a replacement for the present ageing GA fleet of 10-15 year old Cessna 150-152s and Cherokee/ Tomahawk types. ”
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