Cozy Mark IV
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The Cozy Mark IV is Nat Puffer's four-seat development of the Long-EZ idea: a plans-built composite canard pusher with a 28 ft main wing, side-by-side front seats, two seats behind and a 180 hp Lycoming O-360, with a manually retracting nosewheel. The design's support site gives 2,050 lb gross, 1,050 lb empty and 220 mph maximum; the maker publishes no 75 %-power cruise or range figure.
It does a Bonanza's trip on an O-360's fuel, and the price for that is the canard's peculiarities and the plans-built reality. There is no conventional stall but there is a long, flat, nose-high approach at 80 knots or more, a pusher propeller that is vulnerable to everything the nosewheel throws, and a narrow centre-of-gravity range that makes loading a discipline; transition training with a canard pilot is expected by insurers. Every Cozy was laid up by hand by its builder, and foam-and-glass quality, the engine chosen, the empty weight achieved and any deviations from the plans (there are many, and the support site tracks them) matter more than the type figures; read the aircraft's own weight-and-balance and builder log. Owner maintenance and an A&P condition inspection apply. No current asking price was found.
Variants of the Cozy Mark IV
- Cozy Mark IV · 1992 · 114 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Lycoming O-360 (reference; IO-360/IO-390 common) |
| Horsepower | 180 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 1992 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | — |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | 20,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,200 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 56 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 1,000 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 2,050 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 | 148 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 114 |
| Median year built | 2007 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 9 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 1 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 78.951 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 78.952 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 10 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 8.773 |
| Airworthiness directives | 8 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 114 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 114 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 114 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 3-4 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 1 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 3.2 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 2.6 of 103 |
| Support | 4.7 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 0.2 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 11.7 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 33.21 · 223 models in class.
- Severity: class median 12.5.
- Access: class median 796.
- Support: class median 131.
- Liquidity: class median 19.89.
- 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