The Tapanee Levitation 4 is a Canadian four-seat STOL aircraft designed to be homebuilt by Michel Lequin for Tapanee Aviation of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec.^[1][2][3][4]

A larger version of the companies earlier Pegazair bushplane, the Levitation is a high-wing monoplane with V-strut bracing, leading edge slats and Junkers flaperons. Powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 flat-six piston engine with a two-blade propeller. The Levitation has a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel and a cabin holding a pilot and three passengers in two rows of side-by-side seating. By December 2004 five kits had been sold.^[2][3][4]

Data from ^[2]Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2008-2009

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Capacity: 3
• Length: 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 10.21 m (33 ft 6 in)
• Height: 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in)
• Wing area: 16.72 m² (180 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 621 kg (1,368 lb)
• Gross weight: 1,133 kg (2,500 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360 flat-four piston engine , 134 kW (180 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 255 km/h (159 mph, 138 kn)
• Cruise speed: 185 km/h (115 mph, 100 kn)
• Stall speed: 62 km/h (38 mph, 33 kn)
• Range: 925 km (575 mi, 500 nmi)
• Rate of climb: 3.6 m/s (700 ft/min)

Related development

• Tapanee Pegazair-100

Notes

Bibliography

• Official website

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