Brutsche Freedom 210 STOL


The Brutsche Freedom 210 STOL was a proposed American STOL homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Neal H. Brutsche and intended to be produced by Brutsche Aircraft Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah, introduced in the mid-1990s. The aircraft was planned to be supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development

The Freedom 210 STOL was to be a follow-on design to the single-seat Brutsche Freedom 40. It features a cantilever high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft was to be made from aluminum sheet. Its span wing was to mount almost full span Fowler flaps and feature a wing area of. The cabin width was to be, accessed via swing-up doors in width. The acceptable power range was to be and the standard engines used are the Lycoming O-360 or the fuel-injected Lycoming IO-360 powerplant. Kit options included a heater, upholstery, cargo tie-downs and floats.
The aircraft was to have a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage was to be.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a engine was to be and the landing roll is.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit would be 1400 hours.

Operational history

By 1998 the company reported that kits were available.
In April 2015 no examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and it is likely that none were completed.

Variants

;Freedom 180 STOL
;Freedom 210 STOL

Specifications (Freedom 210 STOL)