Sport plane
Sport aircraft is a colloquial but not exactly defined and mostly incorrect term for small or light aircraft .
The use of the term sports aircraft is factually correct if the aircraft is actually primarily used for air sports , for example with gliders or in competitive aerobatics . All other aircraft up to 5.7 t MTOW are correctly referred to as light aircraft . Often the term is also applied to microlight aircraft , which, according to German aviation law, are not aircraft , but motorized aerial sports equipment .
Many pilots of light aircraft perceive the term "sport aircraft" as derogatory, since the use of small aircraft is by no means limited to purely sporting leisure time enjoyment: Airplanes such as the Cessna 172 , which are often seen by outsiders as "sport aircraft", are regularly used for a wide variety of general purposes Aviation to commercial scheduled air traffic also used commercially.
