Hinchman H-1 Racer

The Hinchman H-1 Racer is a 1980s American single-seat autogyro designed by Hank Hincham with plans or a kit available from Hincham Aircraft Company for amateur construction.
By 1998 the kit and plans were being offered by Winners Circle Engineering Inc. of Monrovia, Indiana.

Design and development

The aircraft was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a windshield, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, hydraulic disk brakes and a self-aligning nosewheel, plus a tail caster. The acceptable power range is and the standard engine used is a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, single-ignition Rotax 503 engine in pusher configuration. The cabin width is.
The aircraft fuselage structure is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing has a full aerodynamic, bullet-shaped, composite cockpit fairing that adds to the aircraft's empty weight. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of and an optional pre-rotator. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a engine is and the landing roll is.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 150 hours.

Operational history

By 1998 the company reported that 100 plans and kits had been sold and three aircraft were completed and flying.
In April 2015 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration to the designer.