Amax Sport 1700

The Amax Sport 1700 is an Australian homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Amax Engineering of Donvale, Victoria. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit or in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Sport 1700 features a strut-braced parasol wing, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a windshield, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, while the wing is of wooden construction, with the whole aircraft covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 33.00 ft span wing has a wing area of 146.00 sqft and are capable of folding for storage for ground transport. The acceptable power range is 85 to 110 hp.

The Sport 1700 has an empty weight of 600 lb and a gross weight of 1300 lb, giving a useful load of 700 lb. With full fuel of 16 u.s.gal the payload is 604 lb.

The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 500 hours.