The V6 STOL consists of plans to power an existing certified Piper PA-20 Pacer airframe with a Ford Motor Company V6 engine and moving it from the Certified Category to the Experimental Amateur-built category.
The aircraft features a strut-braced high wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed via doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
Since it uses a standard Piper Pacer airframe, the aircraft is made from welded steel tubing, covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 321NaN1 span wing employs a USA 35B airfoil, mounts flaps and has a wing area of 168square feet. The standard conversion installs a 2300NaN0 Ford V6 powerplant, driving a fixed pitch propeller, although engines of up to 3000NaN0 can be employed. The 2300NaN0 engine gives the aircraft a sea level, standard day takeoff distance of 1500NaN0 and a landing distance of 3000NaN0.[2]
The V6 STOL has a typical empty weight of 1200lb and a gross weight of 2200lb, giving a useful load of 1000lb. With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is 784lb.
The manufacturer estimates the time to complete the conversion from the supplied plans as 400 hours.
In January 2014, 14 examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, but a total of 25 had been registered at one time.[3] [4]