Partenavia Oscar

The prototype Partenavia Oscar at the 1965 Paris Air Show

Developed as an all-metal version of the P.57 Fachiro, the prototype was designated the P.64 Fachiro III and first flew on 2 April 1965. Improvements were made to the design, mainly to the rear fuselage to fit a panoramic rear window, and now renamed the P.64B Oscar B it first flew in 1967. Also known as the Oscar 180 powered by a 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A1A piston engine, a 200 hp version (with a Lycoming O-360-A1B engine) was known as the Oscar-200. Twenty-one aircraft were delivered to South Africa and assembled by AFIC (Pty) Limited and marketed as the AFIC RSA 200 Falcon.

In January 1976, the company flew a new fully aerobatic version, the P.66C Charlie, and 96 were built, mainly for the Aero Club d'Italia.

• P.64 Fachiro III - Prototype, one built.
• P.64B Oscar B - Production aircraft with cut-down rear fuselage and 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming engine, 64 built.
• P.64B Oscar 180 - Marketing name for the Oscar B.
• P.64B Oscar 200 - 200 hp version of the Oscar B, 9 built.
• P.66B Oscar 100 - Two-seat version with 100 hp (75 kW) Lycoming engine, 80 built.
• P.66B Oscar 150 - Three-seat version with 150 hp (112 kW) Lycoming O-320 engine, 50 built.
• P.66C Charlie - Four-seat aerobatic version of the P.66B with 160 hp Lycoming engine, 107 built.
• P.66D Delta - P.66B with minor changes, one built.
• P.66T Charlie - Two-seat trainer version of the P.66C, one built.
• AFIC RSA 200 Falcon - South-African version of the P.64.

 Italy

• Italian State Police[1]
• South Africa

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982-83[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Capacity: 3 pax
• Length: 7.24 m (23 ft 9 in)
• Wingspan: 9.986 m (32 ft 9 in)
• Height: 2.77 m (9 ft 1 in)
• Wing area: 13.4 m² (144 sq ft)
• Aspect ratio: 7.45
• Airfoil: NACA 63A515[3]
• Empty weight: 600 kg (1,323 lb)
• Max takeoff weight: 990 kg (2,183 lb)
• Fuel capacity: 162 L (43 US gal; 36 imp gal) fuel ; 7.5 L (2 US gal; 2 imp gal) oil
• Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-320-H2AD 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 119 kW (160 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed Hoffmann Propeller HO 23-183.150, 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) diameter fixed-pitch propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 241 km/h (150 mph, 130 kn)
• Cruise speed: 218 km/h (135 mph, 118 kn) Maximum, at 75% power and 1,980 m (6,496 ft)

206 km/h (128 mph; 111 kn) Economical, at 65% power and 2,745 m (9,006 ft)

• Stall speed: 98.5 km/h (61.2 mph, 53.2 kn) flaps up

93 km/h (58 mph; 50 kn) take-off flap

82 km/h (51 mph; 44 kn) landing flap

• Range: 854 km (531 mi, 461 nmi) at Max cruise with reserve fuel

975 km (606 mi; 526 nmi) at Economical cruise with reserve fuel

• Endurance: 3 hours 54 minutes at Max cruise

4 hours 44 minutes at Economical cruise

• Service ceiling: 4,570 m (14,990 ft)
• Rate of climb: 4.82 m/s (949 ft/min)
• Wing loading: 73.88 kg/m² (15.13 lb/sq ft)
• Power/mass: 0.0734 hp/lb (0.1207 kW/kg)
  
• Take-off run: 245 m (804 ft)
• Take-off distance to 15 m (49 ft): 420 m (1,378 ft)
• Landing run: 150 m (492 ft)
• Landing distance from 15 m (49 ft): 350 m (1,148 ft)

Related development

• Vulcanair V1.0

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

• Cessna 172
• Cessna 150

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Partenavia Oscar.

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing.
• Hatch, Paul F. (June 1985). "Air Forces of the World: Italian State Police (Polizia di Stato)". Air Pictorial. Vol. 47, no. 6. p. 207.
• Simpson, R.W. (1991). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-194-X.
• Taylor, John W. R. (1982). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982-83. London: Jane's Yearbooks. p. 143. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2.