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Four-Place STOL: Look Beyond Macho

If you want utility and ability without blowing up the budget, one of these four-place STOL-capable machines might be right for you.

Rick Durden
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Edited By:

Omar Filipovic

STOLest of the four-place STOL birds—a Peterson’s Performance Plus King Katmai in its natural habitat.

You’re looking for utility—a cruise speed across the ground in triple digits, even with some headwind, a cabin large enough to take friends or family and your, um, stuff and you want to be able to get away from it all at remote airstrips.

Bottom line, you’ve decided that you want a four-place STOL flying machine because just two seats doesn’t cut it—and STOL two-placers are often as expensive as four-place birds—and a six-place airplane is a luxury outside of your budget.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.