de Havilland Australia
DHA-3 Drover
Manufactured 1949–1953
First flight 23 January 1948
de Havilland Australia
DHA-3 Drover
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History de Havilland Australia
DHA-3 Drover
Manufactured 1949–1953
First flight 23 January 1948
Design work on the DHA-3 began in 1946 after DHA identified a need to replace the de Havilland Dragon biplane then in widespread use in Australia. Although the British parent company's Dove was being produced at the same time, DHA saw that the Dove was not entirely suitable for Australian conditions. Using the Dove as a starting point, DHA designed an aircraft with three four-cylinder Gipsy Major engines instead of the Dove's two Gipsy Queen six-cylinder engines and a fixed tailwheel undercarriage instead of the Dove's retractable tricycle undercarriage. Like the Dove the DHA-3 was sized to carry 8 to 9 passengers with a single pilot.
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The de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover is a small transport aircraft that was built by de Havilland Australia (DHA) in the 1940s and 1950s. The aircraft had some similarities with the two-engine British-built de Havilland Dove but used a trimotor configuration..
Variants
- Drover Mk. 1: Manufactured with variable-pitch propellers.
- Drover Mk. 1F: Modified with fixed-pitch propellers.
- Drover Mk. 2: Modified with double-slotted flaps.
- Drover Mk. 3: Re-engined with three Lycoming O-360-A1A horizontally-opposed engines.
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de Havilland Australia
DHA-3 Drover
Manufactured 1949–1953
First flight 23 January 1948
de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover Manufactured 1949–1953 First flight 23 January 1948
General Info
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- Crew: 1 or 2
- Capacity: 8 passengers/2 x stretchers + 2 passengers or medical attendants / 1,710 lb (776 kg) maximum payload
- Length: 36 ft 2 in (11.02 m)
- Wingspan: 57 ft (17 m)
- Height: 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
- Wing area: 325 sq ft 30.2 m2
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- Empty weight: (2,080 kg)
- Maximum zero-weight:2,948 kg
- Maximum landing weight: 2,948 kg)
- Max takeoff weight:(2,948 kg)
- Powerplant: 3 × Lycoming O-360-A1A 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engines, 180 hp (130 kW) each
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- Maximum speed: 192 mph (309 km/h, 167 kn)
- Cruise speed: 144 mph (232 km/h, 125 kn) maximum
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- 126 mph (109 kn; 203 km/h) economical cruise at 63^
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- Stall speed: 65 mph (105 km/h, 56 kn) max fuel, 45 minutes reserve
- Minimum control speed: 212 mph (341 km/h, 184 kn)
- Range: 540 mi (870 km, 470 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 15,200 ft (4,600 m)
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- 6,200 ft (1,890 m) with one engine inoperative
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- Maximum zero-fuel weight: 2,948 kg
- Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min (5.1 m/s)
- Take-off run: 865 ft (264 m)
- Take-off distance to 50 ft (15 m): 1,400 ft (427 m)
- Landing run: 685 ft (209 m)
- Landing distance from 50 ft (15 m): 1,570 ft (479 m)
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Links to Youtube & Others
The Drover was designed for QANTAS based on the de Havilland Dove with modifications for the Australian environment. These changes included adding a third engine and changing from a retractable tricycle nose gear to a fixed tailwheel.
de Havilland Australia
DHA-3 Drover
Designed in the late 1940s by Hawker De Havilland in Australia as a general aviation light passenger aircraft, the Drover’s first flight was in January 1948.
Youtube Link
The HARS aircraft had many owners over the years and was purchased back by Hawker De Havilland in 1981 as an apprentice restoration project. She flew again in July 1986 and is totally airworthy.
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