Firefly T67M260 for sale
It’s your chance to own a piece of British aviation heritage with a Firefly T67M260.
Swift Aircraft is offering 9 Firefly T67M260 aircraft for sale. These aircraft were previously used by the RAF from 1996 – 2009 for Defence Elementary Training and are currently being overhauled to meet all airworthiness requirements. This fleet of aircraft boasts a range of high profile RAF training pilots including HRH Prince Harry.
Prices range from 47,300 GBP to 64,350 GBP depending on age, condition and specifiation.
Key Features
The T67M260 Firefly, made in Composite by Slingsby Aviation in Yorkshire, is a single piston-engined aircraft with a 260hp Textron-Lycoming engine, which drives a three-blade, Hoffmann constant speed, composite propeller. Its instrumentation and communications equipment allows it to be flown along airways and the aircraft is cleared for instrument flying and night flying.
The T67 Firefly is fitted with side-by-side dual controls, a fixed windscreen and a backward-tilting canopy incorporating direct ventilation windows and fresh-air scoops. The unpressurised aircraft is fully aerobatic and can easily maintain height during an aerobatic sequence. The aircraft also has fuel and oil systems capable of sustaining inverted flight.
The Firefly can carry two pilots for over three hours of training. This endurance, coupled with a rapid climb rate of less than 10 minutes to reach 10,000ft, make it an excellent training aircraft.
The fleet available are all military training aircraft, built to be fl own solo from the right-hand seat.
Firefly - Typical Characteristics
Crew: 2
Overall Length: 24 ft 09 in (7.544 m)
Overall span: 35 ft 2 in (10.719 m)
Overall Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.286 m)
Wing area: 135.6 ft² (12.6 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 23015/23013 (root/tip)
Empty weight: 1720 lb (780 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 2550 lb (1157 kg)
Powerplant: 1× Textron Lycoming AEIO-540-D4A5 6-cylinder horizontally-opposed engine, 260 hp (194 kW)
Firefly -Typical Performance
Never exceed speed: 195 knots (224mph, 361 km/h)
Maximum speed: 152 knots (175 mph, 281 km/h)
Cruise speed: 140 knots (161 mph, 259 km/h)
Stall speed: 54 knots (62 mph, 100 km/h) (with flaps)
Range: 407 nm (468 mi, 753 km)
Service ceiling: 19,000 ft [8] (5,790 m)
Rate of climb: 1,380 ft/min (7 m/s)
Wing loading: 18.8 lb/ft² (91.8 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.10 hp/lb (0.17 kW/kg)