MAC Mamba
# MAC Mamba

The MAC Mamba, Mamba Range is an Australian two-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Melbourne Aircraft Corporation.

## Design and development

The Mamba is a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane designed over two years and first flown on 25 January 1989. It has fixed tricycle landing gear and is powered by a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine. It has an enclosed glazed cabin with side-by-side configuration seating for two. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with stressed aluminum skin. It was intended to introduce four-seat and military versions of the Mamba.

The military version was built under contract by Australian Aircraft Industries as the AA-2S Mamba powered by an IO-360.

## Variants

### AA-2

    Lycoming O-235-powered prototype built by Melbourne Aircraft Corporation

### AA-2M

    Lycoming IO-360-powered military variant built by Australian Aircraft Industries

### AA-2S

    Lycoming IO-360-powered civilian under test by Mamba Aircraft Company

### AA-4S

    Lycoming O-320 four-place under development by Mamba Aircraft Company

## Specifications (Prototype)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90

General characteristics

* Crew: one
* Capacity: one
* Length: 7.00 m (22 ft 11.5 in)
* Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 5.75 in)
* Height: 2.38 m (7 ft 9.75 in)
* Wing area: 10.13 $m^2$ (109.04 sq ft)
* Empty weight: 390 kg (860 lb)
* Gross weight: 680 kg (1,499 lb)
* Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235-N2C flat-four piston engine , 86 kW (116 hp)

Performance

* Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph, 135 kn)
* Endurance: 5 hours 42 minutes
* Rate of climb: 7.6 m/s (1,500 ft/min)
