Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity...
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easier to land than tailwheel aircraft. Tricycle gear is essentially the reverse of conventional landing gear or taildragger. On the ground, tricycle aircraft...
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Landing gear extenders are devices used on conventional or tailwheel-equipped aircraft. They move the wheels forward of the landing gear leg by 2-3 inches...
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Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing. For aircraft, it is generally needed for...
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Van's Aircraft RV-8 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
Aircraft. The RV-8 is equipped with conventional landing gear, while the RV-8A version features tricycle landing gear. The design is similar to the earlier...
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Piper PA-20 Pacer (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
essentially a four-place version of the two-place PA-17 Vagabond, with conventional landing gear, a steel tube fuselage and an aluminum frame wing covered with...
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Glasair GlaStar (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft...
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Aero Adventure Aventura (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
the single-seat Aventura has repositionable main landing gear, down for runways and up for landing on water. The steerable tail wheel is retractable...
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ISON Airbike (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
elevator and rudder are conventional. The fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tube and the aircraft has conventional landing gear with tail wheel steering...
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American Champion Citabria (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Citabria is a light single-engine, two-seat, fixed conventional gear airplane which entered production in the United States in 1964. Designed for...
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Cessna 140 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Cessna 120, 140, and 140A, are single-engine, two-seat, conventional landing gear (tailwheel), light general aviation aircraft that were first produced...
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Sherpa Aircraft Sherpa (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
engined K500 and a turboprop K650T. The aircraft has a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel, also available with alternate large tundra tires...
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landing on its main wheels first in the case of a tricycle gear aircraft or on all three wheels simultaneously in the case of a conventional landing gear-equipped...
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Glasair Sportsman 2+2 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
amateur-built aircraft. The aircraft can be fitted with tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and can also be equipped with floats and amphibious floats...
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Wood Sky Pup (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
an American single-seat, high wing, cantilever, single engine, conventional landing gear ultralight aircraft that was designed by Stephen K. Wood of Whitewater...
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Aces High Cuby (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
single engine, high wing, strut-braced, light sports planes with conventional landing gear that was marketed for homebuilding by Aces High Light Aircraft...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich PBSh-1 (category Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear)
fuselage were to be wooden. The aircraft was to have conventional landing gear, with the main gear being directly inspired by that of the I-220. Armament...
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Aeronca 11 Chief (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Aeronca Chief is a single-engine, light aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear and two seats in side-by-side configuration, which entered production...
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Aeronca Champion (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
light airplane with a high wing, generally configured with fixed conventional landing gear and tandem seating for two occupants. The Champ was designed for...
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Heinkel He 118 (category Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear)
under jet power. The following month the similarly powered, fixed conventional landing gear-fitted Heinkel He 178 V1 would make the first flight powered entirely...
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Van's Aircraft RV-15 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cabin accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear with tundra tires and an internal shock absorbing mechanism, plus...
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Maule M-7 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
M7-235 including Oleo-Strut main landing gear. M-7-235C Orion Same as M7-235B but with sprung aluminum main landing gear and Lycoming IO-540 engine. M-7-260...
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Piper PA-15 Vagabond (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
Piper PA-15 Vagabond and PA-17 Vagabond are both two-seat, high-wing, conventional gear light aircraft that were designed for personal use and for flight...
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Barrows Bearhawk (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
cabin that is 42.5 in (108 cm) wide and accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft fuselage...
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Cessna 180 Skywagon (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Cessna 180 Skywagon is a four- or six-seat, fixed conventional gear general aviation airplane which was produced between 1953 and 1981. Though the...
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CubCrafters CC19 XCub (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
conventional and tricycle landing gear configurations, with NXCub simply being the model designation for aircraft factory-built with tricycle landing...
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Cessna X210 (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
was similar to the 195, sharing the latter's basic design and conventional landing gear configuration, but was powered by a 240 hp (179 kW) Continental...
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Sorrell Hiperbipe (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Sorrell SNS-7 Hiperbipe is a two-seat, negative stagger, conventional landing gear-equipped cabin biplane designed for amateur construction that was...
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Stolp Starduster Too (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
The Stolp Starduster Too SA300 is a two-seat, conventional landing gear equipped, homebuilt biplane. Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co currently holds rights...
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Sling Aircraft Sling HW (category Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear)
2020. The Sling HW is a cantilever high-wing, fixed tricycle gear or conventional landing gear homebuilt aircraft. Construction is predominantly pop riveted...
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