Best Off Skyranger





The Best Off Skyranger is a French-designed two-seat ultralight utility aircraft, produced by Best Off, of Toulouse. It is a high-wing conventional monoplane with tricycle undercarriage, and of fabric-covered tubular construction.

The Skyranger is also manufactured under licence by Aero Bravo in Brazil, SkyRanger Aircraft in the United States (as a kit), Aeros in Ukraine and at least 150 were built by Synairgie in France, too.

Some 900 are flying throughout the world.

Variants

 * Skyranger
 * Original model, introduced 1990.


 * Skyranger Vfun
 * Renamed original model for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight class. Standard engines available are the 64 hp Rotax 582 two-stroke, the 80 hp Rotax 912UL, the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS, 85 hp Jabiru 2200, the 60 to 80 hp VW and the 60 hp HKS 700E four-stroke powerplants. The aircraft has also been equipped with the JLT Motors Ecoyota engine.


 * Skyranger Vmax
 * Improved model for United Kingdom BCAR Section "S" certification, with ventral fin. Standard engines available are the 64 hp Rotax 582 two-stroke, the 80 hp Rotax 912UL, the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS, 85 hp Jabiru 2200, the 60 to 80 hp VW and the 60 hp HKS 700E four-stroke powerplants.


 * Skyranger Swift
 * Improved model based on the Vmax for the US light-sport aircraft market, with reduced wingspan.


 * Reusable Bomber Drones
 * On 26 April 2024, 6 photos surfaced online, taken somewhere in Russia, which appeared to show a crashed Skyranger Swift 2 fitted with a single OFAB-100-120 bomb. Along with other equipment to allow for it to become a “remotely piloted bomber”. Skyranger had been contacted and said it could be an existing aircraft or one built from a kit worth $55,000.00. Ukraine has previously modified a Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat into a kamikaze drone.

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 * Ikarus C42
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