The Mooney Ovation or also known as the M20R Ovation is an aircraft that is part of the M20 series. This unit was introduced in 1994, having a long body fuselage. This contains a Continental IO0550-G engine or also known as the power plant that can produce a 280hp. This was able to win the plane of the year in 1994 by the Flying Magazine. The M20R unit was officially certified in June 30, 1994. This plane was created for the main objective of being fast. The plane is able to cruise for 2,400 nautical miles. It has the best speed, range and efficiency among its competitors that is the reason why it was named the plane of the year the moment it was introduced. The quality of the unit was all because of the effort that the manufacturer has given it. Each unit was hand built in order to make sure that each contains superior quality.
The entire Mooney unit is reasonably priced because of the effort and care put on each unit while building it. All units of Mooney contain retractable gear which has been proven to be much safer than the fixed gear type. Just basing it on insurance rating, insuring the Mooney is cheaper compared with any fixed gear type because there are only a few recorded accidents which have happened with a retractable gear type like the Mooney. The high price of the Mooney aircraft compared with its many competitors is just natural because they can be considered to be on the top list of the best light aircraft available in the market.
The Screaming Eagle aircraft was created basing from the long body of the M20R Ovation 1 and 2 and the M20S Eagle. This unit contains a maximum propeller RPM that ranges from 2500 to 2700. The change in the propeller speed also allowed the engine to increase in power from 280hp to 310hp. It also uses the Hartzell 3 bladed composite or metal scimitar propeller. This change has increased the gross weight to 3.374lb. This specific unit was also sold as the Ovation 3 of the Mooney Aircraft Company. There is also a lot of improvement and different variant that was developed in the M20 series where the Ovation unit was included.
The Ovation is considered to be one of the most famous variant created in the M20 series, a series which was the 20th design if Al Mooney which is the reason for the name. The series was started in the 1950 and was halted only in 2008. There are a lot of flight expert which are enjoying the Mooney series and this is one of the best plane to own.
The Mooney Ovation shows how fast the light aircraft can go without giving you any worries because of the great controls that the plane has.