title: Lucas L5
text: # Lucas L5
  
  The Lucas L5 was a sport aircraft designed in France in the late 1970s and marketed for amateur construction. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with side-by-side seating for two in a fully enclosed cabin. Construction was of metal throughout, and the builder was given the option of fixed, tricycle undercarriage, or tailwheel undercarriage in which the main units were manually retractable.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1977–78, 494
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: One pilot
  * Capacity: 1 passenger
  * Length: 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in)
  * Wingspan: 9.20 m (30 ft 2 in)
  * Height: 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)
  * Wing area: 11.9 $m^2$ (128 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 505 kg (1,113 lb)
  * Gross weight: 946 kg (2,086 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235 , 86 kW (115 hp)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 260 km/h (160 mph, 140 kn)
  * Range: 1,000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi)
  * Rate of climb: 5.0 m/s (985 ft/min)
  