Custom Flight North Star Explained

The Custom Flight North Star is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed by Morgan Williams and produced by Custom Flight of Tiny, Ontario. The aircraft is based on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub and is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.^{[1] [2]}

Design and development

The North Star features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit that is 290NaN0 wide, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, with the wing constructed from aluminum sheet and all surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 36.31NaN1 span wing employs a USA 35B airfoil, has an area of 190.7square feet and mounts flaps. The wing is supported by "V"-struts and jury struts. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is 150to and standard engines used include the 1500NaN0 Lycoming O-320 four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is 1200 hours. The aircraft can be mounted on wheels, floats or skis.

Operational history

By December 2011 the company indicated that 20 examples had been completed and flown. By December 2015, 27 examples had been registered with Transport Canada and 13 in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 50. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
2. Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 144. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.
3. Web site: Canadian Civil Aircraft Register. 19 December 2015. Transport Canada. 19 December 2015.
4. Web site: Make / Model Inquiry Results. 19 December 2015. Federal Aviation Administration. 19 December 2015. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063912/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=&Modeltxt=NORTH+STAR&PageNo=1. dead.