Larkin Skylark

Skylark KC-3
Role Homebuilt semi-amphibious aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Larkin Aircraft Corporation
First flight 1973
Number built 1
Unit cost
$7000 in 1974 [1]

The Larkin Skylark is single-engine amphibious homebuilt aircraft. Only one aircraft was built and flown in 1973.

Design

The Skylark is a pusher-style design with a single Volkswagen air-cooled engine above and behind the fully enclosed cockpit. The cockpit seats two occupants in side-by-side configuration, with a large Plexiglas canopy curving around both occupants. The tail is a twin-boom arrangement attached at the trailing edge of the wings, allowing clearance for the pusher propeller above and within the booms. The landing gear is a tricycle arrangement with the nose gear positioned at the foremost point of the nose and the two main gear semi-recessed into teardrop-shaped fairings on the lower sides. The fuselage and landing gear are internally supported with an aluminum tube keel.[2]

The Skylark is capable of amphibious operation when fitted with an optional V-shaped lower hull made out of fiberglass.[3]

Specifications

Data from Plane & Pilot

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
Related lists

References

  1. Flying Magazine: 86. August 1974. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Larkin Skylark". Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  3. John William Ransom Taylor (1977). Jane's Pocket book of home-built aircraft. p. 141.
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