The World's Civil
Aircraft is a new volume, thoroughly researched over the course of the
last nine years, which includes a vast amount of unpublished material on
the subject of currently airworthy civil registered aircraft. It is the
most comprehensive source available including more than 2900 entries
listed in alphabetical order by manufacturer. Each entry includes at
least one illustration complete with registration and c/n where known.
This is followed by country of origin, year of first flight and numbers
built. The specifications include powerplant, external dimensions,
range, cruising speed and weights all in imperial and metric. A brief
description of the type follows.
The book has 571 letter
size pages, 5357 illustrations of which 387 are in colour. and more than
312,000 words of text. All types of civil registered aircraft which are
currently airworthy are described including helicopters, gyrocopters,
homebuilts, ultralights, warbirds, bizjets, bizprops, airliners and
one-off designs. This comprehensive up-to-date work of reference will be
an extremely invaluable addition to any library.
ISBN 978 0 9782944 0 3
Price: US $87.50 plus
shipping
GBP 45 plus shipping
The book weighs 4.4
pounds.
It can be ordered direct
from the author via
e-mail at blackisle@sympatico.ca
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