Aeros del Sur Manta

The Aeros del Sur Manta is an Argentine ultralight trike, designed and produced by Aeros del Sur. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
Aeros del Sur is the importer of Aeros products for Argentina. The Manta was designed by mating the Aeros Profi trike wing with a new, locally designed carriage. The Manta was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 472.5 kg, with a ballistic parachute. The Manta has a maximum gross weight of 472.5 kg. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from a mix of bolted-together aluminium and steel tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 10 m span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The standard powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp Rotax 582 engine, but the HKS 700E four-stroke, dual-ignition 60 hp engine is optional, as are Hirth and Simonini powerplants.