Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2B Islander/Defender
multi-role military aircraft
Specifications
- Origin
- UK
- Type
- multi-role military aircraft
- Maximum Speed
- 144 kt / 166 mph
- Maximum Range
- 2,773 km / 1,723 miles
- Dimensions
- span 16.15 m / 53 ft 0 in
length 10.86 m / 35 ft 7.75 in
height 4.18 m / 13 ft 8.75 in - Weight
- empty 1,823 kg / 4,020 lb
maximum take-off 2,994 kg / 6,600 lb - Powerplant
- two 224-kW (300-hp) Avco Lycoming IO-5400K1 B5 flat-six piston engines
Armament
provision for 907 kg (2,000 Ib) of disposable stores, including 7.62-mm (0.3-in) machine gun pods, 113- and 227-kg (250- and 50-lbO bombs, anti-personnel grenades, flares, rocket-launcher pods, wire-guided missiles and drop tanks, carried on four external hardpoints