12 Most Efficient Four Seat Airplanes

Since fuel consumption is a significant portion of an airplane operating costs, the aviation industry has continually been striving to improve aircraft fuel efficiency. We are not talking about four-seat airplanes with the lowest fuel consumption. The fuel economy of an aircraft is a measure of how much fuel an aircraft needs to operate in relation to the service provided. For example, a four-seat plane that burns 20 gallons per hour, and cruises at 300 miles per hour, with 1500 pounds useful load is far more efficient than a plane that burns only 8 gallons and 200 miles per hour cruise with 500 pounds useful load. Now that you have an idea of what efficiency means in aviation, you can get into the video.

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[delschier]

My Cozy IV 4 seat canard cruises at 200 mph and uses 6.5 GPH at that speed. It has 1400 mi range with reserve with 675 pounds of passengers. A Cozy IV can be purchased used under $74K.

[MrJohnsonx]

New drinking game, everytime dude says, " with AV gas costing about $6/gallon" take a drink.

[AClark-gsgl]

Thoroughly enjoyed your informative video. Keep up the great work!

[Dave-hcpp]

I’m 6’5” and 305 lbs. I take up the useful load on most 4 seaters.

[johnwoodruff]

We fly the da40 ng with the jet A engine and it burns 6.6 gal hr and flys smooth.

[DirtyLilHobo]

Just because an aircraft has four seats does not mean those seats can be occupied. Passenger occupancy depends upon many factors such as individual passenger weight, fuel load, baggage or cargo load, center of gravity limits, aircraft performance, density altitude, runway length, obstacle clearance demands.. I’ve seen many an accident wherein a pilot successfully departed a low altitude airport near sea level, flew to a high altitude airport at midday, refueled then crashed on takeoff due to reduced aircraft performance and density altitude being well above the airport elevation.

[peteranninos]

Cardinal RG has 1036 useful load, 48" shoulder room, stretch out room in the back seat, enormous doors and I cruise at about 150mph at 8gph. With full tanks (and 3 people) I can manage around 900 miles at economy cruise.

[vagabondwheels]

Just curious why the Velocity XL-RG didn't make the list - everything I've read about it suggests it would be competitive with these. Maybe not but just curious why then. The plane Mojo Grip is building too. It' s a Sling four seater and seems both fast and efficient too. Just curious what kept these two off the list.

[johnwhitehead]

A 172 is a Skyhawk not a Skylane. The Skylane in a 182.

[nightflyer]

Great vid those planes are real beauties.

[theentirenationofsweden]

"Can hold people 6' tall" *_Cries in 6'5"_*

[MultiGrumman]

Очень хороший анализ и сравнение:). Спасибо за видео. Успехов и удачи:).

[marcpasquini]

The cost of a new Cessna 172 SP is closer to $500, 000.00

[gerardandrew]

i am sorry, but how much did avgas cost? i think i missed the 300 times you mentioned it!

[Ebbyman]

I'm a bit surprised that the Sling TSI isn't on this list!

[robertblaney]

After watching this video, I couldn’t quite remember the price of avgas. Was that around $6 a gallon ?? 😂

[djatnikasaleh]

The review is good but would be better if you put a grafik (fuel consumption, range, load, speed and price) at the end & the viewers get well informed.

[SummitSecrets]

How much is Av-gas again? Not sure if you mentioned it in the video...

[ssn]

WILDLY out of date. Prices are very much higher than stated. Panthera is ONLY available as gas engine, and not available as a kit.

[Il_Biondo]

Can you please put the figures in knots and nm?