ABS Aerolight Navigathor

The ABS Aerolight Navigathor is a French powered parachute and roadable aircraft that was designed and produced by ABS Aerolight of Sérignan-du-Comtat. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft and as a kit for amateur construction.

The company appears to have gone out of business in late 2007 and production ended.

Design and development
The Navigathor is a development of the earlier ATE, which stands for Air-Terre-Eau (Air-Land-Water) and indicates that the vehicle is capable of being used as a flying car with a top road speed of 150 km/h or as a boat with a top water speed of 7 km/h.

As an aircraft the Navigathor was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 450 kg. The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of metal tubing and composites and features a wedge-shaped boat hull. It features a 46 m2 parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem in an open cockpit, four-wheeled cross country all terrain vehicle style landing gear and a single 105 hp Hirth F-30 four-cylinder, horizontally opposed, two-stroke, aircraft engine, mounted in pusher configuration. In all modes the vehicle is powered by its ducted propeller.

The vehicle has an empty weight of 230 kg and a gross weight of 450 kg, giving a useful load of 220 kg. With full fuel of 35 L the payload is 195 kg.

Variants

 * ATE
 * Initial model flying car/boat, Air-Terre-Eau (Air-Land-Water).


 * Navigathor
 * Improved model flying car/boat.