Australian Lightwing GR 912

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Australian Lightwing GR 912 & Sport 2000
Australian Lightwing GR 912
Type: Sport plane
Design country:

AustraliaAustralia Australia

Manufacturer:

Australian Lightwing

Commissioning:

1985

The Australian Lightwing GR 912 and Sport 2000 is a family of sport aircraft from the Australian manufacturer Australian Lightwing .

History and construction

The family's planes are braced high-wing aircraft with conventional tail units and either a non-retractable nose wheel landing gear or a tail wheel landing gear. The closed cabin has two seats in tandem configuration. The hull is made of welded steel tubes and is covered with GRP and fabric. The wings consist of an aluminum frame and are partly clad with aluminum and partly covered with fabric. The Rotax 582 two -stroke engine with 48 kW, the Rotax-912 ULS four-stroke engine with 75 kW or various motor vehicle engine conversions are available as standard engines. The aircraft is also offered as a kit for amateur construction .

Australian Lightwing GR 582
Australian Lightwing Sport 2000

variants

  • GR 582 Float Plane - version with floats
  • GR 582 Amphibious LightWing - version with floats and integrated landing gear
  • GR 912 - version with tail wheel chassis
  • Sport 2000 - version with nose wheel landing gear

Technical specifications

Parameter Data
crew 1
Passengers 1
length 5.68 m
span 9.5 m
height 1.90 m
Wing area 15.35 m²
Empty mass 295 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 544 kg
Cruising speed 148 km / h
Top speed 176 km / h
Service ceiling ? m
Range ? km
Engines 1 × Rotax-912 ULS piston engine with 73.5 kW

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robby Bayerl, Martin Berkemeier, et al .: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011–12. WDLA, Lancaster 2011, ISSN  1368-485X , p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b c d company homepage , accessed on June 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Data from Aviamarket ( Memento of May 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 6, 2013