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The A/W 95 was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules, but if built lightly enough may qualify as an ultralight aircraft, under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, with that category's maximum empty weight restriction of 254 lb (115 kg). The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 272 lb (123 kg).
The aircraft was designed long before the adoption of the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg), but nonetheless complies with them. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 150 lb (68 kg) and is billed as the "World's Tiniest Homebuilt Helicopter" by the plans supplier.
Free Bird Innovations, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and formed in about 2003. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category.
Beaujon Aircraft publishes the plans along with six other designs in book form under the name How to Build Ultralights. [ 1 ] The Mach .07 was specifically designed to comply with the United States ultralight category and its FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum 254 lb (115 kg) empty weight.
The SunFun started as a foot-launched glider design, the VJ-24, and was developed into a wheeled undercarriage motor glider, the VJ-24W. The VJ-24 was derived from the earlier Volmer VJ-23 Swingwing and differed from that design by replacing the wooden structure with metal and employing a constant chord, strut-braced wing in place of the VJ-23's cantilever, tapered wing.
Data from Ultralight News, Pilot Mix. General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one (ultralight configuration) Length: 17 ft 3 in (5.26 m) Wingspan: 27 ft 5 in (8.36 m) Height: 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) varies by main landing gear wheel diameter Wing area: 123 sq ft (11.4 m 2) Empty weight: 254 lb (115 kg) Gross weight: 540 lb (245 kg) Fuel capacity: 5 US gallons (19 litres) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax ...
Plans available (2015) The Colomban MC-30 Luciole (English: Firefly ) is an ultra-lightweight plans-built single-seat low-wing tail-dragger monoplane , designed by the French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban , creator of the tiny single-seat Colomban Cri-cri twin-engined aircraft and the MC-100 Ban-Bi two-seat aircraft.
He modified the prototype Kitfox Lite to meet FAR 103 regulations requiring an ultralight aircraft to have an empty weight of less than 254 lb (115 kg). [1] [2] [3] [5] The fuselage is made from 4130 steel tubing. Flaperons and vortex generators are used to improve roll control and low speed flight. The wings are foldable for storage. [1] [2] [3]