Formerly known as Aerocomp Inc, Comp Air is a Merritt Island, Florida-based manufacturer of kit and factory-built aircraft. In its early days, the company focused on producing floats for seaplanes. In time, the concern’s expertise with composite materials and manufacturing processes germane thereto facilitated its transition to the lucrative kit aircraft sector.
Currently Comp Air offers three aircraft models: the six-place, high-wing Comp Air 6.2 and Comp Air 9, and the eight-place, low-wing Comp Air 12.
Comp Air’s model 6.2 features carbon-composite construction, a full-cantilever high-wing spanning forty-feet and featuring an elegant 8:2 aspect ratio. The aircraft’s cabin measures 31-feet one-inch long by 52-inches wide and 45.5-inches high.
The Comp Air 6.2 kit is designed to accommodate a powertrain comprising Lycoming’s 350-horsepower IO-580-ACIA engine and a three-blade, constant-speed McCauley propeller. So motivated, the aircraft manages a two-thousand pound useful load, a maximum cruise-speed of 185-knots and a maximum initial climb-rate of 1,250-feet-per-minute to a 15,700-foot service-ceiling.
Constrained to its economy cruise speed of 173-knots, the Comp Air 6.2 claims a maximum range of 840-nautical miles (with VFR reserve) at an altitude of 6,500-feet.
The Comp Air 6.2 sits atop a fixed, tricycle undercarriage sufficiently rugged to facilitate operations from unimproved runways yet slippery enough to endure the aircraft’s relatively high cruising speeds.
The Comp Air 6.2 is a large airplane by home-built standards. Notwithstanding a plethora of inherent quick-build features—to include new assembly methods that do away with the need for complicated lamination techniques by joining formed parts with specialized adhesives—competent builders should expect to spend three-thousand man-hours transforming the kit’s components into a flying airplane. Those disinclined to pass 125 days (3,000 ÷ 24 = 125) in their workshops may avail themselves of Comp Air’s builder assistance program.
At 2023’s SUN ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo, Comp Air co-owner Ron Lueck set forth a Walter 601D turbine-engine option may presently be made available for model 6.2 builders seeking to ante-up kerosine dollars. A proven powerplant native to the Czech Republic, the Walter 601D-1 is of the two-stage axial, one-stage centrifugal compressor / annular combustion chamber design—an architecture evocative of Pratt & Whitney’s famed PT-6 turboprop engine.
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