American Legend Aircraft AL18 Super Legend HP
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The AL18 Super Legend HP is American Legend's Super Cub-sized Cub: a tandem two-seater on a 35 ft 5 in wing with a 180 hp Titan O-340, flown at 1,320 lb as a light-sport aircraft or at 1,750 lb when built as an amateur-built kit, with 108 mph cruise, a 26 mph flapped stall and 1,900 fpm.
The Super Legend buys Super Cub performance with new metal, a modern panel and a 2,000-hour engine, and the weight limit is the decision: at 1,320 lb a sport pilot can fly it but the useful load is 430 lb, which with 30 gallons aboard leaves room for one average adult; the kit version at 1,750 lb carries two people and fuel. Check which certificate and gross weight the paperwork carries, because they are not interchangeable after the fact. Factory-built S-LSA examples are consistent and supported; a kit-built AL18 is an amateur-built aircraft whose quality is its builder's. Fabric covering, tailwheel handling and the usual Cub landing-gear inspections apply, and the big-tyre, extended-gear options most are sold with add weight and change the sight picture.
Variants of the American Legend AL18 Super Legend
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TAILFAX SCORE
Partial: 20.7 out of 30 (safety not scored, too few records)
Among 1–2 seat pistons (321 models)
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tailwheel |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Titan O-340 (180 hp; 174 hp low-compression option) |
| Horsepower | 180 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | — |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | 94 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | 15,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,900 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 23 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 430 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,320 lb |
| Empty weight | 890 lb |
| Usable fuel | 30 gal |
| 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 | 122 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 116 |
| Median year built | 2021 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 6 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 51.721 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 43.12 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 29 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 253 |
| Airworthiness directives | 1 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 116 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 116 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 116 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | —1 |
| Severity | —2 |
| Access | 6.9 of 103 |
| Support | 6.5 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 7.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | Partial: 20.7 out of 30 (safety not scored, too few records)6 |
- 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