The Air Creation Skypper is a French ultralight trike, designed and produced by Air Creation of Aubenas. The aircraft was introduced in 2011 and is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.[1]
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Available powerplants include the a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine, the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL or 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS engine and the twin cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 60 hp (45 kW) HKS 700E.[1]
With the Rotax 582 the aircraft has an empty weight of 201 kg (443 lb) and a gross weight of 462 kg (1,019 lb), giving a useful load of 261 kg (575 lb). With full fuel of 55 litres (12 imp gal; 15 US gal) the payload is 221 kg (487 lb).[1]
When equipped with the Bionix wing and Rotax 912 engine the Skypper was €6,300 cheaper than the more sophisticated Air Creation Tanarg with the same engine and wing, in 2011.[1]
Propellers: 3-bladed composite Ecoprop, 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) diameter
Performance
Maximum speed: 125 km/h (78 mph, 67 kn)
Stall speed: 53 km/h (33 mph, 29 kn)
Rate of climb: 3.5 m/s (690 ft/min)
Wing loading: 30.4 kg/m2 (6.2 lb/sq ft)
ReferencesEdit
^ abcdefgBayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 200. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
^ abAir Creation (2012). (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
^Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 218. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
External linksEdit
Official Skypper 912 website
Official Skypper 582 website
October 21, 2023
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