The Cessna 150 has a massive cargo area for its size. It is difficult to find another plane in its class that can match it. The piper Tomahawk comes pretty close.

My guess is that this is intentional. A designer of recreational planes can limit their liability risk by posting a huge useful load but not giving you the space to use it. Fuel tanks often are smaller than they need to be and cargo space is intentionally limited.

All this I believe is in effort to prevent overloading by the operator. Planes that are designed for professional operators usually come with huge tanks and cavernous cargo capacity in hopes that they will stay within the limitations but still hold the maximum amount of load configurations for the pilot.

When the supercub first came out it had a cargo space hardly big enough to hold a brief case and a limit of only 35 pounds. I think it will be difficult to find a LSA plane with much cargo space at all.

Jim

Last edited by Jim_Libenow; 03/05/11 05:37 PM.