Barrows Bearhawk


The Barrows Bearhawk, now also called the Barrows 4-Place Bearhawk, is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed by Bob Barrows and produced by R&B Aircraft of Fincastle, Virginia, AviPro Aircraft and now Bearhawk Aircraft of Austin, Texas. The aircraft is supplied as a kit or as plans for amateur construction.

Design and development

The Bearhawk was designed as a personal project by Barrows to carry aircraft engines for delivery as freight. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin that is wide and accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing covered in doped aircraft fabric, while the wings are made from aluminum sheet. Its span wing employs a NACA 4412 mod airfoil, has an area of and mounts flaps. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is and standard engines used include the Lycoming O-360 and Lycoming O-540 four-stroke powerplants. Construction time from the supplied kit is 1200 hours.
The prototype was fitted with a Lycoming O-360 burning automotive fuel.

Operational history

By October 2016, 77 examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and 11 with Transport Canada.

Variants

;Bearhawk
;Bearhawk Bravo
;Patrol
;Companion

Specifications (Bearhawk)