AT-6 Texan   (April 2011)

I've been interested in some time to build an AT-6 Texan and with some mad money in hand, chose the Seagull 1.20 AT-6.  Power is another Zenoah G-20 though I had considered strongly the DLE-20 given its recent popularity and reported good performance.  The Zenoah while slightly heavier and less powerful, is a proven reliable engine and unwanted is any engine failures on a warbird.  The Zenoah will not be a hoss of an engine in the plane, but should fly it more scale like, which is what is wanted from this plane.

The build was typical of a 1.20 size plane except Seagull had placed three servos ahead of the firewall and pre installed the push rods.  These were ultimately relocated  to the wing bay for isolation from the ignition but doing so proved to work well when balancing.

A friend had a set of retracts that he offered and they were considered.  They were sturdy and would drop in but didn't provide for angling the gear forward, which I felt was a necessity on our field so went with the stock struts.

As the spinner for this plane was quite expensive, a large prop nut was made as an alternative.