title: Normand Dube Aerocruiser
text: # Normand Dube Aerocruiser
  
  The Normand Dube Aerocruiser is a Canadian single-engined, two-seat bushplane designed by Normand Dube and supplied as a kit for homebuilding by Aviation Normand Dube of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The Aerocruiser 912 is a high-wing braced monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear, the wheels can be quickly changed to skis if required. It has a welded steel tube fuselage and metal aluminium riveted wings and can take a variety of mainly Rotax piston engines. The aircraft has a gross weight of 1,232 lb (559 kg) and is powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS engine, for the Canadian advanced ultralight category.
  
  The design has been developed into Aerocruiser Plus, a four-seat version with a gross weight of 2,200 lb (998 kg) powered by a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 engine and the Aerocruiser 450 Turbo, a six-seat version with a gross weight of 4,650 lb (2,109 kg) powered by a 450 hp (336 kW) Lycoming TIGO-541 engine.
  
  ## Operational history
  
  By March 2017, 56 examples had been registered with Transport Canada and one in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.
  
  ## Specifications (Aerocruiser 912S)
  
  Data from World Directory of Leisure Aviation
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one
  * Capacity: one passenger
  * Wingspan: 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m)
  * Wing area: 160 sq ft (15 $m^2)$
  * Empty weight: 529 lb (240 kg)
  * Max takeoff weight: 1,235 lb (560 kg)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 912ULS horizontally-opposed, four-cylinder, piston engine, 100 hp (75 kW)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 115 mph (185 km/h, 100 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 85 mph (136 km/h, 73 kn)
  * Stall speed: 32 mph (52 km/h, 28 kn)
  * Rate of climb: 1,200 ft/min (6 m/s)
  