Ace Junior Ace

what is it?

The Ace Junior Ace is a two-seat sports aircraft that has been offered by the Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company in kit and plans form for home building since the early 1930s. It was designed by Orland Corben. An evolution of Corben's single-seat Baby Ace, it is a parasol wing monoplane of conventional taildragger configuration.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.9 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 209 km/htop speed
• size 606 kgmax take-off weight
• built 202made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

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number built

202

role

sports aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Ace

engines

1× Continental C85

length

5.5 m

wingspan

7.9 m

max take-off weight

606 kg

top speed

209 km/h

cruise speed

169 km/h

range

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ceiling

3,200 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.