Headquartered on southern Germany’s Eggenfelden (EDME) Airport, ScaleWings has dazzled the light-sport-aircraft industry with its SW51 Mustang, a seventy-percent replica of the North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft of the Second World War. Produced at ScaleWings’ manufacturing facility in Krosno, Poland, the SW51 is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction.
Advertised by ScaleWings as the world’s most accurate downsized P-51 Mustang replica, the SW51’s all-carbon airframe surfaces are adorned with over one-hundred-thousand textures (e.g. rivets, sheet-metal joints, screws, panels) characteristic of the original aircraft. The end result bears a startlingly uncanny resemblance to the P-51’s classic, aluminum monocoque.
The SW51’s design features a full-cantilever low-wing and a two-tandem-seat cockpit enclosed beneath a bubble-canopy evocative of North American’s P-51D and subsequent iterations of the Mustang. Flight instrumentation consists of Garmin’s G3X EFIS combined with classic analog gauges. The aircraft’s conventional (read tail-wheel) landing-gear is to be offered in both fixed and retractable configurations. In accordance with FAA regulations germane to the category, light-sport SW51s destined for the U.S. market will be restricted to fixed undercarriages.
The SW51 is powered by a single, forward-mounted, 141-horsepower, air and liquid-cooled, four-cylinder, four-stroke Rotax 915iS turbocharged engine driving either a 3-bladed DUC Hélices carbon-fiber CS fixed-pitch, or 4-blade variable-pitch tractor propeller. The variable-pitch drivetrain motivates the 1,653-pound (MGTOW) machine to a Vne of 216-knots and climb-rates better than 1,500-feet-per-minute.
Standard SW51 kits are priced at approximately $138,000 and include: fuselage, center wing, outer wings, empennage, control surfaces and actuation systems, landing-gear, seats, and fuel system. Optional additional equipment includes but is not limited to: firewall forward kit including Rotax 915iS and MT-4-blade-propeller, avionics kit including Dynon HDX or Garmin G3X suites, and GRS Galaxy’s Ballistic Rescue System (BRS).
The standard kit and optional packages may be inquired after or ordered at the ScaleWings website.
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