Lake Buccaneer


The Lake Buccaneer is an American four-seat, light amphibious aircraft originally developed as the Colonial C-2 Skimmer, itself a development of the two-seat Colonial C-1 Skimmer.

Development

The C-2 Skimmer was developed in the late 1940s as a four-seat variant of the earlier C-1 Skimmer. It is a cantilever, shoulder-wing monoplane amphibian with a single-step all-metal hull with retractable tricycle landing gear. It is powered by an Avco Lycoming piston engine in pusher configuration, pylon-mounted above the hull.
The manufacturing rights were acquired by the Lake Aircraft Corporation in October 1959 and the aircraft was built as the LA-4, Lake Amphibian with a Lycoming engine. This further developed into the Lake Buccaneer which was essentially the same airframe with a fuel injected engine. A variant called the EP added an additional cargo door and engine rear cowling. A six-seat development with a lengthened hull was named Renegade, this had either a or a turbocharged engine. A military version was called the Seawolf.

Variants

;LA-4-180 Skimmer
;LA-4-200 Buccaneer
;LA-4-200-EP

Specifications (LA-4-200 Buccaneer)