PB-63 | |
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Role | Single-seat lightweight helicopter |
National origin | Brazil |
Manufacturer | Fábrica do Galeão |
Designer | Paul Baumgärtl |
First flight | 1950s |
Number built | 1[1] |
The Baumgärtl PB-63 was a 1950s single-seat helicopter designed and built by the Austrian-designer Paul Baumgärtl for the Brazilian Air Ministry.[2] The PB-63 was of a conventional pod and boom design with an open steel-tube construction and it had a single main rotor and a tail-mounted anti-torque rotor.[2] It had a tricycle landing gear with the pilot in an open sided cabin at the front.[3] The PB-63 was powered by an 85 hp (63 kW) Continental C85-12 flat-four piston engine.[2]
Data from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft[2]
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