title: Comp Air 7
text: # Comp Air 7
  
  The Comp Air 7 is an American piston or turboprop-powered light civil utility aircraft manufactured in kit form by Comp Air. It is configured as a conventional high-wing monoplane with tailwheel undercarriage.
  
  The company website does not list it as being in production in 2022.
  
  ## Operational history
  
  By the fall of 2007 70 Comp Air 7s and 25 Comp Air 7SLs had been completed and were flying.
  
  ## Variants
  
  ### Comp Air 7
  
      Piston-powered aircraft typically equipped with a Lycoming IO-540 piston engine of 290 hp
  
  ### Comp Air 7SLX
  
      Turbine powered aircraft equipped typically with a Walter M601 turboprop of 660 shp
  
  ## Specifications (typical Comp Air 7SLX)
  
  Data from Kitplanes Magazine
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one pilot
  * Capacity: 6 passengers
  * Length: 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
  * Wingspan: 33 ft 0 in (10.15 m)
  * Height: 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
  * Wing area: 178 sq ft (16.5 $m^2)$
  * Empty weight: 2,400 lb (1,088 kg)
  * Max takeoff weight: 4,200 lb (1,905 kg)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Walter M601 turboprop, 660 shp (550 kW)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 275 mph (443 km/h, 239 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 230 mph (372 km/h, 200 kn)
  * Stall speed: 54 mph (87 km/h, 47 kn)
  * Range: 1,047 mi (1,685 km, 1,040 nmi)
  * Rate of climb: 3,000 ft/min (15 m/s)
  * Power/mass: 6.36 lb/hp (0.26 kW/kg)
  