Aviation Products Star Trike

The Aviation Products Star Trike is a German ultralight trike that was designed by Klaus Wisch and is produced by Aviation Products Ltd of Bitburg.

Design and development
The Star Trike was designed in 1980 has been in production ever since. It fits the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category. The design features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat or 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 aluminum tubing, with its single or 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. A range of powerplants can be fitted, including the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp Rotax 582 engine and the twin cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 60 hp HKS 700E engine.

In its single seat agricultural version the aircraft has an empty weight of 170 kg and a gross weight of 472.5 kg, giving a useful load of 302.5 kg. With full fuel of 44 L the payload is 271 kg.

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the Air Creation XP 15.

Variants

 * Star Trike Agrar
 * Single seat agricultural aircraft version.


 * Star Trike DS
 * Dual seat version.