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Pilot Report: GippsAero Airvan Delivers Utility in a Fun To Fly Package

The GA8 Airvan is a blend of Australian outback strength and a gigantic load-hauling fuselage topped with a forgiving wing fat with lift

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

March 1, 2014

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GippsAero’s beefy boxcar of an airplane may look ungainly, but once you climb in and fire up its 320-hp turbocharged Lycoming TIO-540, pull the flaps lever all the way up and push the throttle to 40 inches of manifold pressure, the big single leaps forward and soars into the sky where it belongs.

The GA8 Airvan is a blend of Australian outback strength and a gigantic load-hauling fuselage topped with a forgiving wing fat with lift, and it handles and performs like a much smaller airplane while offering great flexibility. The GA10 stretched turboprop variant of the Airvan is in flight-test and slated for certification this year, and AIN flew the piston-powered model to get a foretaste of the Rolls-Royce 250-powered aircraft now in the works.

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