Tecnam P2012 Traveler

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P2012 Traveler
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Type: twin-engine feeder aircraft
Design country:
Manufacturer:

Tecnam

First flight:

July 21, 2016

Commissioning:

December 2019

Number of pieces:

2

The Tecnam P2012 Traveler is a twin-engine, shoulder- wing designed feeder aircraft from the Italian manufacturer Tecnam .

history

When designing the aircraft, the specifications of the " FAR Part 23" and " EASA CS-23" regulations were taken into account. When designing Tecnam worked with the airline Cape Air from Massachusetts together, which includes a letter of intent has submitted for the purchase of 100 machines with which their outdated Cessna 402 to be replaced. The rollout was on April 1, 2016 and the first flight on July 21, 2016. By April 2017, the prototype had completed more than 100 flight hours. After the first flight of the second prototype on 22 December 2017 and 600 hours flight testing of the two aircraft made at the end 2018, the EASA - type certification .

On October 16, 2019, Cape Air unveiled its first two P2012s, which it had received a few weeks earlier, at the Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis. At the beginning of December 2019, the new aircraft started regular service, initially on the 200-kilometer route from Boston to Rutland . Another 18 firmly ordered aircraft are to follow, and there are still options for 90 aircraft.

As a second customer Zil Air (received Seychelles ) their first P2012 Traveler, after a six-day, 8300-kilometer-long ferry flight from the Italian on 29 November 2019 the airfield Capua on the airport Mahé arrived. Zil Air has options for two further machines, which should also be equipped with the optionally available air conditioning system.

Technical specifications

Parameter Data
crew 2
Passengers 9
height 4.4 m
length 11.8 m
span 14 m
Tank capacity 800 l
payload 1350 kg
Empty mass 2250 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 3600 kg
Max. Cruising speed 190 kn (approx. 350 km / h) at 10,000 ft (approx. 3,050 m)
Rate of climb 6 m / s; 1210 ft / min
Engines 2 × Lycoming TEO-540-C1A with 375 HP each (approx. 280 kW)
Takeoff route 690 m
Landing route 500 m
Range 1660 km (900 NM)

literature

  • Riccardo Niccoli: Tecnam's Traveler . In: AIR International September 2017, pp. 60–63

Web links

Commons : Tecnam P2012  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AERO11: Tecnam unveils three new aircraft . flightglobal. April 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tecnam Rolls Out Twin Piston Short-Haul Aircraft , Aviation Week & Space Technology , April 1, 2016
  3. ↑ Traveler takes shape as Tecnam sticks to timeline . flightglobal. 4th November 2015.
  4. ↑ Tecnam P2012 Traveler takes flight . In: flightglobal . July 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Tecnam P2012 Traveler makes its international debut . In: flightglobal , April 6, 2017. 
  6. ↑ P2012 Traveler is ready for series production. In: aerokurier.de. January 12, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ EASA approval for the P2012 Traveler. In: aerokurier.de. December 21, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Flight International, October 29, 2019 (English), p. 22.
  9. ↑ Flight International, December 10, 2019 (English), p. 20.
  10. ↑ Specifications. In: P2012 Traveler. Costruzioni Aeronautiche TECNAM Srl, accessed on November 23, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Flight International, October 29, 2019 (English), p. 19.