Airtrike Eagle 5

The Airtrike Eagle 5 is a German ultralight trike, that was designed and produced by Airtrike of Berlin. When it was in production the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The manufacturer entered liquidation on 1 January 2017.

Design and development
The Eagle 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. 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 bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its fuselage made predominately from composites and with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 9.8 m span Hazard 12S wing is attached by lift struts to its "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The standard powerplant is an air-cooled, four-stroke, 90 hp BMW motorcycle engine. Optional powerplants include the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 80 hp Rotax 912 engine and the in-house designed Airtrike 850ti 120 hp engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 215 kg and with its gross weight of 450 kg has a useful load of 235 kg. With full fuel of 65 L the payload is 168 kg.

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the strut-braced Hazard 12S and several Aeros wings.