Quickie Q2
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 Quickie Q2 is the two-seat tandem-wing development of Rutan's Quickie, sold by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation as a kit from 1980: a 490 lb composite aeroplane with its main wheels on the tips of the front wing, 1,000 lb gross and a 64 hp Revmaster VW conversion giving 140 mph cruise and 550 miles; the Q200 is the same airframe with a 100 hp Continental O-200 and a revised LS-1 canard.
The Q2's attraction is 120 knots for two on 64 hp from an aeroplane that fits in a garage, and its reputation is for a design that punishes inattention: the early GU canard lost lift badly in rain or with bugs, which is why the LS-1 canard and the Q200 exist, and the canard-tip main gear makes ground handling and crosswinds demanding enough that the Tri-Q tricycle conversion is common. Which canard, which gear and which engine an aircraft has are therefore identity questions, and the builder's workmanship in foam-and-fibreglass construction is the inspection. The useful load of 510 lb at 1,000 lb gross is Jane's-era optimism for many examples; read the weight-and-balance. The owner may maintain it and the condition inspection needs an A&P or the repairman certificate; QAC is long gone and support comes from the Quickie Builders Association.
Variants of the Quickie
- Quickie · 1978 · 25 active
- Quickie Q2 · 1980 · 69 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tailwheel |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Revmaster 2100-DQ VW conversion (64 hp, Q2); Continental O-200 (100 hp, Q200) |
| Horsepower | 64 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 1980 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 122 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 478 nm |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | 1,200 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | — |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 510 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,000 lb |
| Empty weight | 490 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 | 373 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 69 |
| Median year built | 1990 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 3 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 0 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 43.48 · thin base (low)1 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 43.48 · thin base (low)2 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 8 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 11.59 · thin base (low)3 |
| Airworthiness directives | 1 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | low |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 69 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 69 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 69 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 1.2 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 4.2 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 7.6 of 103 |
| Support | 4.6 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 1.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 18.9 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 7 · scores Sep 30