Shorts Regional Sd330

Name: Shorts Regional Sd330
Brand: BlackBox Simulation
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4 (48 reviews)

BlackBox Simulation

SHORTS REGIONALBLACKBOXSD330

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USD 19.99

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Added: December 7, 2023
Updated: December 20, 2024

GENERAL The Shorts SD3-30/60 is a twin-engine, unpressurised, turboprop land plane having a strut braced/cantilevered high wing monoplane configuration and a retractable tricycle landing gear. Power is provided by two Pratt and Whitney turboprop engines, each driving a Hartzell five-bladed propeller whose pitch is hydraulically controlled.

AVIONICS The Avionics consist of a custom-built Collins FC65 Flight director and autopilot system, a fully customised Garmin AS400 GPS System, a complete set of Collins ‘Pro Line II’ Comm/Nav/Pulse digital radios with user programmable 6 channel memory features and 2 different, working weather radar systems from both Collins and Bendix.

SYSTEMS Electrical system includes many accurate circuits and systems, all connected via the relevant circuit breakers (numbering in the hundreds!) triple batteries and dual generators. The aircraft also has full cockpit lighting, including over 130 Bulbs on individually controlled circuits and with adjustable rheostat control on most.

LIGHTING Externally there is also a full complement of lighting including animated rotating beacons, navigation lights, landing lights, taxi lights, strobe lights (where fitted) and even an ice inspection light of course all wired up to the corresponding circuits, buses and breakers.

EXTERIOR The exterior models are faithfully built from actual Shorts Brothers blueprints and all with a full complement of working doors and exits including the Sherpa and C23 tail ramps. Normal doors, inwards opening para-troop doors, cargo doors, baggage and emergency doors, also internal cockpit doors. Fully working windshield wipers, that actually wipe the rain from the screen! Full manual and tutorial flight. These give you a full and in-depth explanation of how every system works and the tutorial takes you step by step through a realistic commercial flight from Blackpool to her home in Belfast.

The BlackBox Simulation Shorts Regional SD3-30 Package contains the following aircraft variants.

Shorts SD3-30 Passenger aircraft Shorts SD3-30 Cargo variant

The Short SD3-30 is a twin-engine, high-wing, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility aircraft produced by Short Brothers of Ireland. The SD3-30, which is also referenced as the Short 330, is piloted by two and can seat up to 30 passengers. The aircraft took its first flight on August 22, 1974 and was introduced in 1976. Production ran until 1992, with Short Brothers manufacturing a total of 141 SD3-30s, including passenger models, freight models, and military variants. The aircraft proved successful in its primary role of regional commuter airliner, notably with its ability to operate out of small airports.

The company developed the SD3-30 based off their SC.7 Skyvan, a successful STOL utility aircraft. The SD3-30 shares the Skyvan’s basic utilitarian design, which comprises a boxy fuselage, a strut-braced high-aspect ratio main wing, and an empennage featuring twin vertical stabilizers, one mounted on each end of its single horizontal stabilizer.

The SD3-30 measures 58 feet in length, stands 16 feet, 3 inches tall, and has a wingspan of 74 feet, 8 inches. It features retractable tricycle landing gear, with its main gear wheels housed in fairings attached to the lower wing struts. It is powered by two 1,200-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-45-R turboprop engines that turn 5-blade, constant-speed propellers. The SD3-30 has a range of 1,050 miles, a service ceiling of 20,000 feet above sea level, and it climbs at 1,180 feet per minute. It cruises at 180 miles per hour, stalls at 84 mph, and has a top speed of 220 mph.