The Just SuperSTOL is an American STOL homebuilt aircraft, designed and produced by Just Aircraft of Walhalla, South Carolina. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Bernard, Mary and Suzanne B. Bopp: Just Aircraft:Superstol, Kitplanes, Volume 29, Number 12, December 2012, page 26. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
Design and development The Superstol is a development of the Just Highlander and differs by the addition of automatic leading edge slats, a long stroke air shock robust landing gear with tundra tires, Fowler flaps and a newly designed tailplane. The resulting design features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. It is designed for operation on rough airfields. Page 2 Page 3Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 112. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, while the wing uses an aluminum spar and aluminum ribs, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wings are supported by "V" struts with jury struts and can be folded for ground transportation or storage without the need for disconnecting fuel lines or control connections. Standard engines available include the Rotax 912UL, the Rotax 912ULS or Rotax 912iS, the Rotax 914, Jabiru 2200, the Jabiru 3300 and the Volkswagen air-cooled engine, four-stroke powerplants. The aircraft can take-off and land in under
Variants SuperSTOL Powered by a Rotax 912 or Rotax 914 SuperSTOL XL Just Aircraft introduced the Stretch XL, a stretched version in 2015. It can accommodate engines such as the 180 hp UL Power 520 at 255 pounds and the 160 hp Lycoming O-320 at 315 pounds.
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— AVweb media interview about the SuperSTOL Gallery of 23 photos