SKY ARROW 1450L STANDARD CONFIGURATION KIT WITH ROTAX 914 TURBOCHARGED ENGINE
The Sky Arrow 650 TCNS aircraft is designed and produced by Iniziative Industriali Italiane S.p.A. under a design and manufacturing approval issued by the Italian Airworthiness Authority, Ente Nazionale per l’Aviazione Civile (ENAC). The aircraft is powered by the Rotax 912S engine and is certified under JAR/VLA and FAR 23 design standard. It received a Type Certificate (TC) from the National Airworthiness Authorities of all European Union countries, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the USA and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia. The Sky Arrow 1450L kits, powered by a Rotax 914UL3 engine, are eligible for an Experimental Certificate of Airworthiness. They are manufactured in the same facility of the certified Sky Arrow 650 airplanes and, as a result, kit parts and components benefit from the same high quality construction methods, traceability, quality control procedures the manufacturer adopts for the certified aircraft production. The kit offered by Iniziative Industriali Italiane S.p.A. allows the homebuilder to produce a Sky Arrow aircraft that is very similar to the 650 TCNS with the difference of installing a turbocharged Rotax 914UL3 engine with Hoffmann two-blade, constant speed propeller. As a result, if the homebuilder carefully operates in accordance with the Iniziative technical documents for Kit assembly and testing, the finished aircraft will be substantially identical to a production Sky Arrow with increased performance (i.e. rate of climb, max and cruise speed, takeoff distance, power at altitude). Working with composite materials is complicated and requires costly moulds, jigs and climate controlled areas. Few homebuilders are able to manufacture parts without an external help. For this reason the fuselage of the standard Sky Arrow kit is delivered in a very advanced stage of completion and homebuilders do not need special tools and composite works to finish it. The same concept applies to wings and horizontal tailplane which, in fact, are delivered as fully finished carbon fibre assemblies. Major advantages of composite structures include their extremely high strength to weight ratio, the possibility of moulding them in shapes not obtainable with conventional metal structures, their low maintenance requirements, since composite materials are not affected by weather, and the possibility of easily repairing them in the event of damage.
BREAKDOWN OF SKY ARROW 1450L AIRCRAFT INTO 8 SUB-KITS
Sub-kit |
Description |
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1 |
Fuselage (partially equipped) |
2 |
Instrument panel, complete |
3 |
Fuselage electrical system |
4 |
Power package |
5 |
Wing with struts |
6 |
Horizontal tailplane |
7 |
Landing gear |
8 |
Manuals and documentation |
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