Bakeng Duce
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The Bakeng Duce is Gerald Bakeng's two-seat open-cockpit parasol monoplane of 1970, a plans-built steel-tube-and-fabric design in the 1930s manner with a 30 ft 4 in wing, 1,050 lb empty and 1,650 lb gross, flown with small Lycomings of 125-150 hp; 112 had been built by 2011.
A Duce is a Sunday aeroplane for two in open cockpits and the research found almost nothing dependable about it beyond its dimensions and weights, so the individual aircraft's logbooks, test figures and weight-and-balance are the only numbers, and the listed 150 hp for an O-290 should be read as the encyclopaedia's error rather than a fact. Plans-built over fifty years, so welding, the wooden or metal wing structure, cabane struts and fabric are the inspection and the builder's log the history. It is slow, draughty and pleasant, and the parasol layout gives a good view down and a poor one up. The owner may maintain it and the condition inspection needs an A&P or the repairman certificate.
Variants of the Bakeng Duce
- Bakeng Duce · 1970 · 35 active · this page
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TAILFAX SCORE
Partial: 11.7 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 | Lycoming O-290 (listed at 150 hp; O-290/O-320 fitted) |
| Horsepower | 150 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 1970 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | — |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | 12,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,000 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | — |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 600 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,650 lb |
| Empty weight | 1,050 lb |
| 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 | 83 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 35 |
| Median year built | 1984 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 2 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 57.14 · thin base (low)1 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 57.14 · thin base (low)2 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 10 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 28.57 · 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 35 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 35 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 35 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | —1 |
| Severity | —2 |
| Access | 0.6 of 103 |
| Support | 2.8 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 8.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | Partial: 11.7 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