CAB Supercab
{{Short description|Light aircraft}}
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|name=GY-30 Supercab
|image=CAB GY-30 Supercab.jpg
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|type=Utility aircraft
|manufacturer=Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn (CAB)
|designer=Yves Gardan
|first_flight=5 February 1954de Narbonne 2014, p. 79
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|number_built=7
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|developed_into= SIPA 1000
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The CAB GY-30 Supercab was a two-seat light aircraft built in France in 1954, as a further development of the CAB Minicab. The design was performed by Yves Gardan, a onetime employee of French aeronautical company SIPA. Changes incorporated in the Supercab (from the Minicab) included a more powerful engine, greater wingspan, manually retractable undercarriage, and slotted flaps that replaced the split flaps of the Minicab.
Seven units were constructed by CAB before the rights to the design were sold to Gardan's former employer (SIPA), who developed the design into the SIPA 1000. However, due to a downturn in the light aircraft market at that time, only three of the SIPA variant were produced before production was halted.Website of the Association des Proprietaires et Amateurs d'Avions Gardan
Specifications
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|ref=Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57Bridgman 1956, p. 133.
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|crew=1
|capacity=1 passenger
|length m=5.50
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|span m=8.20
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|height m=1.65
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|wing area sqm=10.30
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|aspect ratio=6.5:1
|empty weight kg=400
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|gross weight kg=613
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|fuel capacity={{convert|70|L|abbr=on}}
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Continental C90
|eng1 type=air-cooled four-cylinder horizontally opposed piston engine
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|eng1 hp=90
|prop blade number=2
|prop name=fixed pitch
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|max speed kmh=275
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|cruise speed kmh=235
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|ceiling m=5000
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|climb rate ftmin=767
|more performance=*Take-off run to 20 m (66 ft): {{convert|340|m|abbr=on}}
- Landing run from 20 m (66 ft): {{convert|300|m|abbr=on}}
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Notes
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References
{{commons category|CAB Supercab}}
- {{cite book|last=Bridgman|first=Leonard|title=Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57|year=1956|publisher=The McGraw-Hill Book Company|location=New York}}
- {{cite magazine |last=de Narbonne |first=Roland |title=Février 1954, dans l'aéronautique française: Le CAB GY.30 "Supercab": Le petit bolide de Gardan |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=February 2014 |issue=531 |pages=78–79 |language=fr}}
- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=123 }}
- {{cite book |last= Simpson |first= R. W. |title=Airlife's General Aviation |year=1995 |publisher=Airlife Publishing |location=Shrewsbury |pages=409 }}
- [http://www.aviafrance.com/9758.htm CAB Supercab on aviafrance.com]
- [http://www.avionsgardan.free.fr/menu_accueil_eng_avions_gardan.htm Website of the Association des Proprietaires et Amateurs d'Avions Gardan]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:1950s French sport aircraft