The Gippsland GA-200 Fatman is a low-wing single-engine agricultural aircraft built by Gippsland Aeronautics.
Based loosely on the Piper Pawnee, the first two prototypes used damaged Pawnee frames. The third prototype, built in 1992, was the first all-original airframe. The GA-200 was fully certificated on 1 March 1991.
Certificate of Type Approval No. 83-6 for the GA200 was issued by the Australian Civil Aviation Authority on that date; the firs...
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The Gippsland GA-200 Fatman is a low-wing single-engine agricultural aircraft built by Gippsland Aeronautics.
Based loosely on the Piper Pawnee, the first two prototypes used damaged Pawnee frames. The third prototype, built in 1992, was the first all-original airframe. The GA-200 was fully certificated on 1 March 1991.
Certificate of Type Approval No. 83-6 for the GA200 was issued by the Australian Civil Aviation Authority on that date; the first to be issued for a totally new aircraft design in Australia since the GAF Nomad, 20 years earlier. The certification basis was the Australian certification standards, Civil Aviation Orders, Sections 101.16 and 101.22. These standards in turn incorporated the airworthiness standards of Part 23 of the US Federal Aviation Regulations.
To date, 50 GA200 aircraft have been manufactured at Gippsland Aeronautics, 28 of which have been exported to countries throughout the world including New Zealand, China, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Brazil....
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