Can you ID this Aircraft ?

[hesham]

Hi,


can anyone ID this aircraft ?,is it a real one,project or built ?.


http://www.motorgraphs.com/content/thumbnails/01548/154741-mainImage.jpg

 

[Cy-27]

According to http://flight-manuals-on-cd.com/EP.9.html

Lancashire Aircraft unbuilt project development of the original EP.9, dated 1962.

See also page 330 FLIGHT dated 30 August 1962......

"Market reaction is now being tested—through the world-wide network of British Motor Corporation dealers to the proposed Prospector 4, capable of carrying a Mini-Minor car. This single engined aircraft would have a nosewheel undercarriage and a rear loading ramp."

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Cy-27,


but what was its designation,EP.?.

 

[Hood]

Another Lancashire Prospector Four (4) image, presumably from the same brochure as Hesham's first post.

The idea behind the concept was to lift 1-ton from a 400yd grass strip. Could be freight only or 8-passenger or air amublance or agricultural use.
Engine: 390hp Continental GTS10-520
Span: 46ft
Length: 31ft 6in
Height: 11ft 3in
Empty Weight: 2,467lb
Usable Load: 2,533lb
Max AUW 5,000lb
Range: 800 miles at 150ph cruising
Estimated Price: £14,000

 

[Apophenia]

Since the Prospector I (retroactive naming) was the Lancashire Aircraft-assembled EP.9 (with Lycoming GO-480-G1.A6), the Prospector II was Lancashire's AS Cheetah 10 conversion (of c/n 47), and this tricycle-gear project was to be the Prospector Four, ... what the heck was the 'Prospector III'?