Oldfield Baby Great Lakes
# Oldfield Baby Great Lakes

The Oldfield Baby Great Lakes is a homebuilt sport biplane. The aircraft has many known names, including the Baby Lakes, Oldfield Baby Lakes, Baby Great Lakes, Super Baby Lakes, Super Baby Great Lakes, and Buddy Baby Lakes

## Design and development

The Baby Great Lakes was designed by Barney Oldfield, and originally built by Richard Lane, to be a scaled-down homebuilt derivative of the Great Lakes Sport Trainer.

The Baby Great Lakes is built using 136 ft (41.5 m) of steel tubing for the fuselage with aircraft fabric covering. The wings use spruce spars. The aircraft can accommodate engines ranging from the Continental A-65 to the Volkswagen air-cooled engine.

## Operational history

The prototype was not intended to be produced in quantity, but enough plans were requested that the aircraft was marketed as a homebuilt design. The rights to the Baby Great Lakes were acquired by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co in May 1996.

## Variants

### Super Baby Lakes

    Accommodates engines over 100 hp (75 kW)

### Buddy Baby Lakes

    Two-place variant

## Specifications (Oldfield Baby Great Lakes)

Data from EAA

General characteristics

* Crew: one
* Length: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
* Wingspan: 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)
* Empty weight: 480 lb (218 kg)
* Gross weight: 850 lb (386 kg)
* Powerplant: 1 × Continental A-80 Horizontally opposed piston, 80 hp (60 kW)

Performance

* Maximum speed: 117 kn (135 mph, 217 km/h)
* Cruise speed: 96 kn (110 mph, 180 km/h)
* Stall speed: 43 kn (50 mph, 80 km/h)
* Rate of climb: 2,000 ft/min (10 m/s)
