title: Mitchell Kitalina
text: # Mitchell Kitalina
  
  The Mitchell Kitalina is an American single place amphibious aircraft.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The Kitalina fuselage is built from an EDO 4000 float with a strut-braced high wing from a Luscombe. The engine is forward mounted on the high-wing with a T-tail arrangement.
  
  ## Specifications (Mitchell Kitalina)
  
  Data from Sport Aviation
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 1
  * Powerplant: 1 × Continental C85 fuel injected, horizontally opposed piston aircraft engine, 85 hp (63 kW)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed
  
  Performance
  
  * Cruise speed: 78 kn (90 mph, 140 km/h)
  