Murphy Yukon
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Toward The Flightline With The Murphy Aircraft’s Yukon was designed with versatility foremost in mind allowing for seating up to four, an economical engine option with the Lycoming 0-360, and a separate cargo compartment and door big enough for your bulkiest items. Perhaps you need more versatility? How about a choice of tricycle or conventional landing gear or even the option for floats - straight or amphibian! More? Well how about jig-less construction and fast build kits to get you to the flightline faster than ever! Lifestyles are fast moving these days with frequent changes and demands. The Yukon is capable of adapting to these situations with its larger than life passenger cabin and flexible seating arrangements. With four seats in place, there is sufficient room for two tents, coolers, chairs and camping gear for four. Removing the rear seat opens an expanse where you can load items from stretchers to bicycles, or even use as sleeping accommodations! The Yukon provides excellent cruise performance, docile stall characteristics, forgiving low speed handling and simplicity of construction. Family Legacy The Yukon follows in the success of the SR2500 Super Rebel and the Moose, using many common parts and design. Based largely on the original SR2500 platform, the concept of the Yukon was to offer a more affordable platform for builders to purchase, operate and maintain. Where the Moose covers the heavy end of the spectrum with its fire breathing radial engine and up to six seats, the Yukon’s approach is simplicity and functionality. Staying with four seats and a smaller, lighter powerplant, the Yukon can perform big tasks on a small budget. Using the same proven and beloved airfoil as the Rebel, Elite and Moose, the Yukon performance will be stellar with additional wing area to lower the wing loading and allow quicker takeoffs and slower landings. Bushplane Heritage The two large main doors and the standard extra large cargo door make the Yukon a real utility airplane. The huge cabin interior (two inches wider than a Cessna 180) easily accommodates bulky or long loads such as bikes, skis, furniture, lumber or camping supplies for four! The Yukon can even be used as a photographic platfonn with Hard points for floats are standard and the wheels are adaptable to oversize tires for short, rough bush strips. You can fly almost anywhere carrying just about anything you want. This is a kit aircraft with great performance and airframe strength, the ability to carry a load and room to stow it. If a semi-monocoque all-metal 4 seat kit airplane seems intimidating, fear not! The Yukon expands on the Murphy tradition of engineering excellence and simplicity. The Yukon is designed for the first time builder with no jigs required, using pre-punched match hole technology and a well laid out manual that leads you through the construction sequence step by step with CAD illustrations. As you gain confidence, you move from easy, introductory builds into more complex areas of the kit. As with all our kits, the principle of pre-punched holes matching substructures to skins ensures all assemblies are self-aligning. The kit builder is spared the task of critical measurements as all the attach points incorporate our unique alignment system. In most cases, ribs, spars and skins have no ‘lefts’ or ‘rights’ until they are assembled, (you ultimately assign and assemble a part to its specific duty on the aircraft). Probably the best feature of sheet metal construction, from a builder’s standpoint, is that when you finish a component, i.e. flap, elevator or rudder, the part is ready to go flying... no fabric covering or dope is required.

The majority of the Yukon structure employs the Avex rivet for final assembly. This is a blind rivet used by many certified aircraft on flight and control surfaces. Quite often mistaken for a ‘Pop’ rivet, the Avex rivet was developed during World War II by the Allies to facilitate field repairs on fighter planes. It’s extremely ‘user friendly’ due to the rivets ability to draw material together and expand into elongated holes. The builder is assured a finished product built as it was designed, even if every hole is not drilled to perfection. Since these are pulled rivets, you do not need a...

Murphy Yukon Both horizontal and vertical stabilizers are cantilevered and employ stringers to transfer torsional loads. The horizontal stabilizer has a constant chord with asymmetrical airfoil. Like the wing, the stab is a three-spar design with the fuselage picking up fittings on the main and rear spars. A four seat metal bushplane is a substan-tial undertaking for anybody, in spite of the lengths that Murphy Aircraft goes to in making the assembly procedure an enjoyable and easy process, time, space or simply, Tm not into this building thing" put a lot of potential Yukon owners off. So...

Toward The Flightline With The Murphy Yukon Fuselage - Perhaps the most impressive assembly since it’s ready to go on its gear, and the wings, including the lift stmts, can be bolted in place. The builder can climb right inside and start working in the cabin to complete the installation of the controls, doors, inner floor, seats, windows, and instrument panel. Fully approved to meet the 51% rule, meticulously assembled by skilled technicians and quality controlled, the Fast Build Yukon kit brings a new dimension to the design philosophy of Murphy Aircraft. Your family bushplane, perhaps...