African Pilot

TECNAM P92 LIGHT

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The Tecnam P92 Light is a high wing, two place, single engine light airplane equipped with tricycle landing gear, but is not only that the P92 Light is the plane that gave wings to thousands of pilots. The P92 design dates to the 1960s, but versions comply with the Fédération Aéronautiq­ue Internatio­nale microlight rules and US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cabin with two-seats-in-side-by-side configurat­ion accessed by doors, fixed tricycle landing gear or convention­al landing gear and a single engine in tractor configurat­ion.

The aircraft is made sheet aluminium tubing. Standard engines available are the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS, 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 and the 100 hp (75 kW) Lycoming O-233 four-stroke powerplant­s.

The P92 Eaglet was introduced in 2008. It employs a cockpit section made of steel tubing covering in sheet aluminium and a monocoque tail cone. It also features a new wing design, a rear window and a cabin that is 117 cm (46 in) wide. The design is an accepted Federal Aviation Administra­tion special light-sport aircraft.

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