title: Sorrell Guppy
text: # Sorrell Guppy
  
  The Sorrell SNS-2 Guppy is an American single-seat, negative stagger, cabin biplane designed for amateur construction that was produced in kit form by the Sorrell Aircraft Company of Tenino, Washington. As of 2019 plans were available from Thunderbird Aviation of Ray, Michigan.
  
  ## Design
  
  The SNS-2 Guppy is a wooden-built negative-stagger biplane with a fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel. Designed to use engines up to 36 hp (27 kW) the kit came with a 32 hp (24 kW) Rotax 377 engine.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one
  * Length: 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m)
  * Wingspan: 21 ft 3 in (6.48 m)
  * Height: 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
  * Wing area: 129 sq ft (12.0 $m^2)$
  * Empty weight: 350 lb (159 kg)
  * Max takeoff weight: 600 lb (272 kg)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 377 piston aircraft engine, 32 hp (24 kW)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 80 mph (130 km/h, 70 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 70 mph (110 km/h, 61 kn)
  * Stall speed: 30 mph (48 km/h, 26 kn)
  * Range: 210 mi (340 km, 180 nmi)
  * Service ceiling: 10,200 ft (3,100 m)
  * g limits: +4
  * Rate of climb: 300 ft/min (1.5 m/s)
  