| Stits SA-3A Playboy | |
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| Canada's first amateur-built aircraft Stitts SA-3A Playboy C-FRAD at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum | |
| Role | Amateur-built aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Designer | Ray Stits |
| First flight | 1952 |
| Introduction | 1952 |
| Variants | Van's Aircraft RV-3 |
The Stits SA-3A Playboy (also called the Stitts SA-3A Playboy) is a single seat, strut-braced low-wing monoplane that was designed by Ray Stits for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed and the prototype was completed in a three-month period during 1952. The design went on to become one of the most influential in the post-war boom in aircraft homebuilding.[1][2][3]
A side-by-side two seat version is known as the SA-3B.[4]
- ^ Plane & Pilot: 1978 Aircraft Directory, page 155. Werner & Werner, 1978. ISBN 0-918312-00-0
- ^ Canada Aviation Museum (n.d.). "Stitts SA-3A Playboy". Retrieved 2010-03-06.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ Experimental Aircraft Association (2010). "Stits SA-3A Playboy – N8KK". Retrieved 2010-03-12.
- ^ Dupas, Ron (1976). "No. 953. Stits SA-3B Playboy (C-FSHM)". Retrieved 2010-03-13.