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Spartan built the 7W Executive in the late 1930s and early 1940s for private and business flying. Its enclosed cabin, all-metal fuselage and retractable landing gear were features of the design. Surviving aircraft remain in the photographic record.
Jim Savage · December 2016
November 1939 transcription; original author not named
Budd Davisson interviews owners · May/June 2017
The simulated Stampe SV.4C has a 140 hp Renault 4P05 engine and a two-blade fixed-pitch wooden propeller. Fixed landing gear and no flap detents are documented. Pilot and instructor cockpit diagrams identify the same primary controls and an elevator-compensator lever.
Stampe SV.4C
S12G · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The cockpit guide labels separate propeller-brake, propeller-position and nose-cone controls. The feature list describes simulated braking and stowing.
Got Friends S12-G manual v3 · MSFS2024, PDF pages5 and8
S12G · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
Working Title G3X Touch displays sit alongside the custom LX navigation and variometer suite. A yaw string and conventional airspeed and altitude instruments remain part of the illustrated panel.
Manual PDF pages5 and8
S12G · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The manual explicitly marks the TCU emergency switch and canopy-jettison handle as inoperable. Their presence in the illustrated cockpit does not establish a working simulated function.
Manual PDF page8; stated implementation limits
S12G · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The MSFS2024 chapter describes interactive EFB checklists with location highlighting and progress tracking. The canopy handles are documented as the MSFS2024 entry and exit interaction.
Manual PDF pages7 and11
S12G · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2024
The Stemme S12G manual identifies digital trim indication and gliding instruments, together with separate engine and airframe electrical controls. The propulsion installation is part of a self-launching sailplane, so its controls have a different purpose from those in a conventional touring single.
Archived simulator manual; installed package revision not observed · PDF p.8; cockpit
Stemme places the engine within the fuselage and drives a propeller that folds into the nose for gliding flight. Side-by-side seats and long wings combine powered touring with soaring.
The MSFS S12G is a later development. S10 references describe the underlying concept, while the S12G manual documents its propulsion controls and cockpit. Photographs of the S10 are labelled as family background.
Aircraft / family
Kollin Stagnito · 1 September 2025
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