Shorts Regional Sd360

Name: Shorts Regional Sd360
Brand: BlackBox Simulation
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4 (75 reviews)

BlackBox Simulation

SHORTS REGIONALBLACKBOXSD360

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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 SD3-60 Package contains the following Aircraft variants.

Shorts SD3-60 Passenger aircraft Shorts SD3-60 Cargo variant

The Short SD3-60 is a twin-engine regional commercial aircraft by aviation producer Short Brothers of Ireland. The SD3-60, which is also called the Short 360, was developed from the smaller SD3-30, which was itself an evolutionary development of the company’s SC.7 Skyvan. The SD3-60 took its maiden flight on June 1, 1981 and it was introduced into commercial service in November of 1982. Short Brothers manufactured 165 SD3-60s during a production run that lasted from 1981 to 1991.

The aircraft is piloted by two and can accommodate up to 36 passengers. While not technically a STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft like its predecessors the SD3-30 and the SC.7, the SD3-60 has proven itself to be worthy on unimproved and short field operations. The SD3-60 has been employed successfully by a wide spectrum of users throughout the world for passenger use, cargo, and some military applications.

The SD3-60 has a strut-braced, high-mounted, high-aspect ratio main wing with a span of 74 feet, 10 inches. It measures 70 feet, 10 inches in length and stands 23 feet, 8 inches tall. It features a standard empennage and retractable tricycle landing gear, with the main wheels housed in fairings that are mounted on the lower extremities of the aircraft’s wing struts. It is powered by two wing-mounted Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AR turboprop engines. Each engine produces 1,424 horsepower and drives a 6-blade, constant-speed propeller. The SD3-60 has a top speed of 251 miles per hour, a cruising speed of 210 mph, a service ceiling of 20,000 feet above sea level, and a range of 991 miles.