Light Miniature Aircraft LM-5 explained

The Light Miniature Aircraft LM-5 series is a family of American high-wing, conventional landing gear, strut-braced, single-engine ultralight aircraft that are intended to resemble the Piper PA-18 Super Cub. The designs are all available as plans from Light Miniature Aircraft of Okeechobee, Florida for amateur construction.[1] [2] [3]

The Light Miniature Aircraft company website domain name expired on 25 May 2010 and has not been renewed.[4] The company seems to have gone out of business about 2010, but Wicks Aircraft continues to provide kits for the designs.[5] [6]

Design and development

The LM-5 design is rendered in wood or optionally aluminum and covered in doped aircraft fabric. The aircraft are sold as plans, with components or complete kits also available to speed construction time.

Unlike the company's LM-1 series which are scale representations of famous general aviation aircraft, the LM-5 series are the same size as the PA-18 that they resemble.[7]

Variants

LM-5X Super Cub
  • Tandem two-seat full-sized replica of a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, powered by a 640NaN0 Rotax 582 or Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Built from aluminum and covered in doped aircraft fabric. Empty weight 6200NaN0, gross weight 10400NaN0. The LM-5X was first flown in 1991 and was still available in 2010.
    LM-5X-W Super Cub
  • Tandem two-seat full-sized replica of a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, powered by a 640NaN0 Rotax 582 or Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Built from wood and covered in doped aircraft fabric. Empty weight 7750NaN0, gross weight 12750NaN0. Still available in 2010.

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    Notes and References

    1. Downey, Julia: 1999 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 15, Number 12, December 1998, page 55. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
    2. Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 60. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
    3. Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter – Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, page 197. BAI Communications.
    4. Web site: Lightminiatureaircraft.com. 5 June 2010. Network Solutions. Network Solutions. May 2010.
    5. News: Light Miniature Aircraft . Internet Archive Wayback Machine . 13 March 2015. 13 March 2015.
    6. Web site: Aircraft Kits. 13 March 2015. Wicks Aircraft.
    7. Web site: Kit Planes, Plans & Manuals. 1 June 2010. Light Miniature Aircraft. May 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080531140141/http://www.lightminiatureaircraft.com/Plans_Manuals.htm. 31 May 2008.

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