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Lake LA-4 Buccaneer
The Buccaneer
“The boat that files flight plans.”
Lake Aircraft · private
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Length
24 ft 11 in
Wingspan
38 ft 0 in
Max speed
130 kts
Range
500 nmi
Ceiling
14,000 ft
Engines
1x Lycoming O-360 (180 hp), pylon pusher
Crew
1
Max passengers
3
Typical config
1 pilot + 3 passengers
Built
1,000+
The Lake Buccaneer is a flying boat for the family hangar: a hull that lands on water, wheels that handle runways, and an engine perched on a pylon above the cabin, pushing instead of pulling. Over a thousand were built, and lake-country pilots swear by them.
Fun fact
The engine sits above the fuselage on a pylon, facing backward — a pusher layout that keeps the propeller clear of water spray.
How to spot one
Boat hull, sponsons under the wings, and an engine pod on a mast above the cabin. Nothing else in the pattern looks remotely like it.
Crews call it
The Lake
Sounds like
A muffled pusher-prop drone from above and behind the cabin — odd until you see why
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the The Buccaneer from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook. Coming to iOS and Android.
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