Auster Arrow

J/2 Arrow
General information
Type	Touring aircraft
Manufacturer	Auster Aircraft Limited
Status	Two airworthy in UK in 2009
Primary user	Private pilot owners
Number built	44
History
Introduction date	1945
First flight	1945
Variants	Auster J-4

The Auster J/2 Arrow is a 1940s British single-engined two-seat high-wing touring monoplane built by Auster Aircraft Limited at Rearsby, Leicestershire, England.

The Arrow was designed as a successor to the pre-war Taylorcraft Plus C monoplane. A development aircraft, a side-by-side two-seater first flew in 1946 powered by a Lycoming O-145-B3 flat four air-cooled engine.^[1]

Import restrictions on the sale in the United Kingdom (UK) of American-built engines resulted in most of the 44 aircraft completed being exported, mainly to Australia.^[1] In later life, examples were re-imported to the UK, where several examples remained active in 2011.

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1951–52^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 22 ft 9 in (6.93 m)
• Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)
• Height: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) (tail down, propeller horizontal)
• Wing area: 185 sq ft (17.2 m²)
• Empty weight: 872 lb (396 kg)
• Gross weight: 1,450 lb (658 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental C75-12 air-cooled flat-four, 75 hp (56 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 98 mph (158 km/h, 85 kn)
• Cruise speed: 87 mph (140 km/h, 76 kn)
• Stall speed: 35 mph (56 km/h, 30 kn)
• Range: 320 mi (510 km, 280 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
• Rate of climb: 430 ft/min (2.2 m/s)

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

• Aeronca Champion
• Fleet Canuck
• Piper J-3
• Taylorcraft L-2

Related lists

• List of civil aircraft

• Bridgman, Leonard (1951). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1951–52. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd.
• Jackson, A.J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 1. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10006-9.
• Mike Preston and Mick Ames, 2002, "Austers", International Auster Club Heritage Group Publication, ISBN 0-9543889-0-9

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