NWT Spruce Coupe
The NWT Spruce Coupe is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by NWT Co of Charleston, Maine. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit and also in the form of plans for amateur construction.Design and development
The Spruce Coupe features a strut-braced low-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from a combination of spruce or pine, and fir, birch, mahogany plywood with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has a wing area of, mounts Junkers ailerons and is braced with "V" struts to the landing gear. The cabin width is. The acceptable power range is and the standard engine used is the Zenoah G-50 twin-cylinder, horizontally opposed, two stroke, carburetted aircraft engine.
The Spruce Coupe has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is.
The aircraft is noted for its STOL capabilities and the standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a engine is and the landing roll is.
The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 500 hours.Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that one aircraft had been completed and was flying.
