Aero Adventure Aventura II
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The Aventura II is Aero Adventure's two-seat amphibious flying-boat kit from Florida, the Rotax 912-powered version of a family descended from the Buccaneer: a fabric-covered high wing on a composite hull with a pusher engine and retractable wheels, sold as an amateur-built kit since the late 1990s.
It is one of the cheapest amphibians that will carry two people, and the research found no manufacturer figures for the II at all, so the aircraft's own weight-and-balance, test-flight data and the kit's documentation are the only numbers; a 912 example is the one to want, since the 582-engined Sport is a two-stroke amphibian with that engine's care and overhaul life. Hull condition, the retraction mechanism, fabric age and whether the engine has lived in salt water are the inspection, and the builder's workmanship on a kit of this kind varies widely. The owner may maintain it and the condition inspection needs an A&P or the repairman certificate; Aero Adventure remains in business.
Variants of the Aero Adventure Aventura
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | amphibious |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Rotax 912ULS (100 hp standard on the II; Rotax 582 on the Aventura Sport) |
| Horsepower | 100 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | — |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | — |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | — |
| Stall speed (Vso) | — |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | — |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | — |
| Empty weight | — |
| Usable fuel | — |
| Fuel burn at cruise | — |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | — |
|---|---|
| Price, high | — |
| Prices as of | — |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | — |
| Overhaul cost, high | — |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 130 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 62 |
| Median year built | 2005 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 12 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 3 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 193.55 · thin base (low)1 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 161.29 · thin base (low)2 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 23 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 37.1 · thin base (low)3 |
| Airworthiness directives | 2 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | low |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 62 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 62 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 62 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 0 of 101 |
| Severity | 2.6 of 102 |
| Access | 7.6 of 103 |
| Support | 4.3 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 9.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 23.8 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 36.69 · 321 models in class.
- Severity: class median 13.04.
- Access: class median 1,000.
- Support: class median 77.5.
- Liquidity: class median 20.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 8 · scores Sep 30