Hi,

I'm new to this forum. We own and fly an Aermacchi AM3C based in Richmond South Africa. I've included a few pictures taken by a friend of our aircraft.

It is interesting to note that our aircraft was the very first aircraft to roll off the factory production line (after the prototypes) and formed part of the three aircraft sent to Rwanda.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_AM.3

Safe Flying

Welcome to the group:
Wow that's very cool looking airplane, it looks like it would be a lot of fun to fly

Can I come visit you to make a movie?

What a great looking plane. How quickly can It get off the ground?

Firstly, thank you for the replies.

richw56 wrote:Welcome to the group:
Wow that's very cool looking airplane, it looks like it would be a lot of fun to fly

richw56,

She is an awesome machine to fly and gives us tremendous pleasure. Like all taildraggers she is not without her vices if you fail to keep your digit fully extracted from that dark place

Zzz wrote:Can I come visit you to make a movie?

Zzz,

Absolutely.

nomiddlemas wrote:What a great looking plane. How quickly can It get off the ground?

nomiddlemas,

The short-field take-off data is 279 feet at sea level (off a paved surface) and landing 213 feet and that is at MAUW.

Welcome, and beautiful plane! Looks like fun!

Good looking craft. Welcome!

Looks like a L19 , I've seen and photographed a L19 ( from France ?) With a turbine engine up front .

Lately I've been checking out some turbine mods for typical bush planes, and I came across the Aerotek Turbo Grizzly of Canada. The aircraft, particularly in the wing, looks a great deal like the old Northwest Ranger/aermacchi AL-60, which the Am-3 is based on. Does anybody know of any design relation here , or is the turbo-grizzly an original design that copied some useful design features? slightly off topic, i know but this is a question that's really been nagging me. Thanks!

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