Normand Dube Aerocruiser Plus
The Normand Dube Aerocruiser Plus is a four-seat Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed by Normand Dube and produced by Aviation Normand Dube of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. The aircraft is a development of the two-seat Norman Dube Aerocruiser.
Design and development
The Aerocruiser Plus features a "V" strut-braced high-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.The aircraft can be fitted with floats, wheels or skis.
The aircraft is made with a welded 4130 steel tubing fuselage and a riveted 2024 aluminum wing. Its span wing employs a NACA 4412 airfoil, has an area of and mounts flaps. The cabin width is. The engine used on the prototype is a Lycoming O-360 four-stroke powerplant.
Operational history
Reviewers Roy Beisswenger and Marino Boric described the design in a 2015 review as "outback-friendly".By March 2017, one example, the prototype had been registered with Transport Canada.