Brumby 610 Evolution

The Brumby Aircraft Brumby 610 Evolution is an Australian single-engined, two-seat, training or touring, cabin monoplane of all-metal construction. The aircraft is built by Brumby Aircraft Australia as a production or kit aircraft at Cowra Airport near Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. The base cost of the aircraft is A$110,000.

Brumby 610 Evolution
Role	Training and Light sport aircraft
National origin	Australia
Manufacturer	Brumby Aircraft Australia
Designer	Phil Goard
First flight	March 2011
Introduction	2010
Status	In production
Number built	8 as of 2014
Developed from	Brumby 600

Design and development

Announced in 2010, the Brumby 610 is essentially a high-wing development of the Brumby 600, featuring a slightly larger fuel capacity and heavy-duty undercarriage components. Designed primarily as a trainer to focus on landing phases, the Brumby 610 also displays benign stall characteristics, with a lower landing speed than the Brumby 600, and a stall speed of 38 knots (70 km/h).^[1] It has fixed tricycle landing gear and seating for two in side-by-side configuration, with doors on each side of the cabin. The Brumby 610 is available with two powerplants; the 100 to 116 hp (75 to 87 kW) Lycoming IO-233 or 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912 series engine, driving a two or three bladed propeller. Unlike the Brumby 600, the Brumby 610 is not offered with the Jabiru 3300 engine option. The prototype was first flown under RA-Aus registration in March 2011, and by 2014 eight had been delivered, either as kits or complete aircraft. A factory built Brumby 610 was the first aircraft in Australia to be fitted with the Lycoming O-233 engine.^[2]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Capacity: 2 (including pilot)
• Length: 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in)
• Wingspan: 8.53 m (28 ft 0 in)
• Wing area: 10.9 m² (117 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 350 kg (771 lb)
• Gross weight: 600 kg (1,322 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × various piston engines, see text.
• Maximum speed: 259 km/h (161 mph, 140 kn)
• Cruise speed: 204 km/h (127 mph, 110 kn)
• Stall speed: 71 km/h (44 mph, 38 kn)
• Endurance: 6 hours
• Rate of climb: 5.1 m/s (1,000 ft/min) (at sea level)