Jabiru Aircraft J250-SP
Everything here is true of every aircraft of the type, not of any one aircraft.
The Jabiru J250 is the J230's sister with the four-door J400 fuselage: a two-seat composite high-wing light-sport aircraft with an enormous baggage area, 840 lb empty and 1,320 lb gross on the 120 hp Jabiru 3300, quoted at 120 knots cruise, a 45-knot stall, 1,000 fpm and 800 nm.
The J250 trades a little of the J230's speed for rear doors and the easiest cabin loading in the light-sport class, and otherwise it is the same ownership proposition, which turns on the Jabiru 3300: a well-cooled, well-documented engine with the factory's cooling and through-bolt updates is a pleasant 6-gallon-an-hour six, and a neglected one is a liability, so engine records come before airframe hours. The 480 lb useful load leaves little once two adults are aboard. As an S-LSA it is maintained to Jabiru's manual by an A&P or LSA repairman; kit-built examples are amateur-built or E-LSA. US support is through Jabiru's distributor, with parts from Australia.
Variants of the Jabiru J230 / J250
- J230-SP · 78 active
- J250-SP · 55 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Jabiru 3300 (120 hp) |
| Horsepower | 120 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | LSA |
| Production start | — |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | 120 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | 800 nm |
| Service ceiling | 15,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,000 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 45 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 480 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,320 lb |
| Empty weight | 840 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 | 75 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 55 |
| Median year built | 2007 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 9 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 163.64 · thin base (low)1 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 127.27 · thin base (low)2 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 16 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 29.09 · thin base (low)3 |
| Airworthiness directives | 0 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | low |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 55 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 55 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 55 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 0.6 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 4.7 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 7.3 of 103 |
| Support | 3.8 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 8.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 24.7 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