Just Aircraft Highlander (JA20)
These figures describe a typical build. Each aircraft of this design was built by its owner, and the one you are looking at may differ.
The Highlander is Just Aircraft's two-seat side-by-side STOL kit: a steel-tube fuselage with fabric covering, a 31 ft 6 in folding wing with a 45-inch chord and conventional (or tricycle) gear. Just's figures at the 1,320 lb light-sport weight with a 100 hp Rotax 912 S are 105 mph cruise, a 36 mph flapped stall, 400 ft of take-off roll, 1,500 fpm and 705 lb useful.
It is the plain-vanilla Just, slower and simpler than the SuperSTOL that grew out of it, and it is what most Just owners actually fly; the register shows nearly 200 under a dozen spellings. The fleet ranges from bare 100 hp aircraft to turbo-Rotax and Titan-engined XLs on 29-inch tyres with the SuperSTOL wing, and the Highlander/XL/SuperSTOL distinctions are not always honoured in the registry string, so establish which wing, gear and engine the aircraft has before using any figure here; the aircraft's own weight-and-balance governs. Most are amateur-built with owner maintenance and an A&P condition inspection; a few are light-sport. Just Aircraft is in business and the builder community is large. No usable asking-price band was found.
Variants of the Just Aircraft Highlander
- Highlander (JA20) · 2005 · 202 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tailwheel |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Rotax 912 S/ULS (100 hp reference; 912 iS, 914, 915 fitted) |
| Horsepower | 100 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 2005 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | 91 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | 1,500 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 31 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 705 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,320 lb |
| Empty weight | 615 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 | 228 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 202 |
| Median year built | 2016 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 24 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 2 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 118.811 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 99.012 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 32 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 15.843 |
| Airworthiness directives | 4 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 202 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 202 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 202 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 0.5 of 101 |
| Severity | 6 of 102 |
| Access | 4.9 of 103 |
| Support | 7.9 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 3.1 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 22.4 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