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Spartan Microlights is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Astoria, New York. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes , ultralight trikes and powered paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and kits for the US Experimental - Amateur-built category.
Moyes Microlights Pty Ltd is an Australian aircraft manufacturer that was based in Waverley, New South Wales and founded by hang gliding pioneer Bill Moyes. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.
The aircraft are also known by other names, including 2-axis microlights, flex-wing trikes, microlight trikes, deltatrikes [2] or motorized deltaplanes. [3] In the United States, they are formally recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as weight-shift-control aircraft .
Data from Cliche and LiteFlite General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) Wingspan: 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m) Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) Wing area: 170 sq ft (16 m 2) Empty weight: 514 lb (233 kg) (typical empty weight with Rotax 582 engine installed) Gross weight: 992 lb (450 kg) Fuel capacity: 6 U.S. gallons (23 L; 5.0 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 582 ...
The design priority was to produce a motor-glider which would be inexpensive to build, transport and store. It is marketed as a powered glider but qualifies in the UK as an SSDR (single-seat, deregulated) microlight. Kit build time is quoted as less than 100 hrs. It can be dismantled for transport and reassembled for flight within an hour. [1]
The application was submitted by owner Martin Scott, who wants to change the airfield from one used by hobbyist aircraft and microlights to a higher quality facility for modern turbo-prop aircraft ...
The company is one of India's largest aircraft manufacturers and is the only producer of commercial microlight aircraft. It started in 1980 producing hang gliders, introduced powered hang gliders in 1983 and the X-Air line of microlights in 1993. By 2007, the company had produced over 1,000 aircraft.
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailerons , elevator and rudder , calling the former "microlight" and the latter "ultralight".