Grumman G-73 Mallard

Following in the strides of the more diminutive Goose and Widgeon before it, Grumman created the G-73 Mallard land and water proficient for business utilization.

Created in the prompt after war years, the Mallard is of comparable general design to Grumman's prior land and/or water capable outlines in that it peculiarities twin outspread motors on a high mounted wing with under wing buoys, retractable undercarriage and an unswept tail unit. Dissimilar to the prior air ship the Mallard characteristics tricycle undercarriage, a focused on skin two stage structure and fuel might be conveyed in the wingtip tanks.

The Mallard model first flew on April 30 1946, and the sort entered administration quickly a while later in September that year with a Canadian administrator. The Mallard was intended for provincial carrier operations with two pilots and 10 travelers, however the greater part of the 59 conveyed were for corporate utilization. Today just a little number stay being used, however their extraordinary land and/or water capable capacity implies they stay well known, especially with visitor administrators.

Like the prior and more diminutive Goose, the Mallard has been fitted with Pratt & Whitney Canada Pt6a turboprops. Frakes Aviation in the USA reengined a little number of Mallards as G-73ts in the early 1970s, the Pt6s significantly boosting execution and working economy. The principal Frakes change first flew in 1969 and a FAA supplemental sort authentication was granted in October 1970.

In right on time 1994 an arrangement rose which would see the Mallard reemerge generation in the Czech Republic. Air and Levov of the Czech Republic, and Duncan Aviation of the USA planned to raise the fundamental money to restart the line in the late 1990s. These arrangements later slipped by.