The Lasco Lascoter was a 1920s Australian 6-seat passenger and mail carrier aircraft built by the Larkin Aircraft Supply Company (Lasco) at Coode Island, Victoria. It was the first Australian-designed and built airliner to be granted a Certificate of Airworthiness.^[1]

The Lascoter was a high-wing monoplane with a tubular steel structure, featuring a tailwheel undercarriage and a fully enclosed cabin for the passengers and the pilot.^[2] It flew for the first time on 25 May 1929;^[3] despite being damaged in a landing accident at Coode Island in May,^[4] it received its Certificate of Airworthiness on 22 July 1929.^[1] It was then put into service with Australian Aerial Services, an airline owned by Lasco, and used on an air mail route between Camooweal, Queensland and Daly Waters, Northern Territory.^[5][6] The Lascoter was used by Australian Aerial Services and its successors until being withdrawn from use in 1938;^[7] it was scrapped during World War II.^[1]

• Australian Aerial Services
• New England Airways

General characteristics

• Crew: one
• Capacity: five passengers
• Empty weight: 2,500 lb (1,134 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 4,500 lb (2,042 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Armstrong Siddeley Puma piston engine, 240 hp (179 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 112 mph (180 km/h, 97 kn)
• Stall speed: 45 mph (72 km/h, 39 kn)