Extra EA-400

The Extra EA-400 is a six-seat, single-engined, high-wing monoplane built by Extra Flugzeugbau as a pressurised cross-country touring aeroplane, a departure from the company's usual aerobatic types. It is made largely of carbon fibre, with a cantilevered high wing designed with help from the Technical University of Delft, Fowler flaps that cut the stall speed from 76 to 58 knots at maximum weight, and a liquid-cooled turbocharged Continental piston engine. It took about 16,000 hours of labour to build and carried a price of around one million dollars, and only 27 were built before the company ran into financial trouble. A fatal accident on delivery of the first customer aircraft in 1998 led German authorities to impose a type rating on its pilots, withdrawn in December 2015.