Historical PZL P.11c

The Historical PZL P.11c is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Historical Aircraft Corporation of Nucla, Colorado. The aircraft is a 66% scale replica of the Polish PZL P.11c fighter and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat open cockpit with a windshield, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing and wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 30.00 ft span wing employs a NACA 2412 airfoil and has a wing area of 84.00 sqft. The cockpit width is 21 in. The standard engine used is the 100 hp CAM 100 four stroke powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 800 lb and a gross weight of 1100 lb, giving a useful load of 300 lb. With full fuel of 11 u.s.gal the payload for the pilot and baggage is 234 lb.

The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, basic VFR instruments, fabric and even paint. Also included were replica 7.9 mm machine guns and a ring gun site. The manufacturer indicated that the design was intended for novice builders and estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 1400 hours.