DTA Voyageur

The DTA Voyageur is a French ultralight trike, designed by Jean-Michel Dizier and produced by DTA sarl of Montélimar. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The aircraft was initially designed as an agricultural aircraft to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg. The Voyageur is intended as a bush aircraft for flying from unprepared surfaces and as such mounts heavy duty landing gear, tundra tires and lacks a cockpit fairing and a front wing strut.

The Voyageur has a maximum gross weight of 450 kg, depending on the wing fitted. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. When fitted with a DTA Dynamic 450 wing it has a span of 10.20 m, supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp Rotax 582 engine or the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 100 hp Rotax 912S engine.

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the DTA Dynamic 450, the DTA Dynamic 15/430 DTA Magic and DTA Diva.

The Voyageur II model is accepted as a light-sport aircraft in the United States.

Variants

 * Voyageur 582 Dynamic 15
 * Model with a 64 hp Rotax 582 engine and DTA Dynamic 15 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 177 kg and a gross weight of 400 kg, giving a useful load of 223 kg. With full fuel of 70 L the payload is 173 kg.


 * Voyageur 912 S Dynamic 450
 * Model with a 100 hp Rotax 912S engine and DTA Dynamic 450 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 209 kg and a gross weight of 450 kg, giving a useful load of 241 kg. With full fuel of 75 L the payload is 191 kg.


 * Voyageur II 582 Dynamic 15/430
 * Improved model with a 64 hp Rotax 582 engine and DTA Dynamic 15/430 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 196 kg and a gross weight of 430 kg, giving a useful load of 234 kg. With full fuel of 75 L the payload is 180 kg.


 * Voyageur II 912 S Dynamic 450
 * Improved model with a 100 hp Rotax 912S engine and DTA Dynamic 450 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 226 kg and a gross weight of 450 kg, giving a useful load of 224 kg. With full fuel of 75 L the payload is 170 kg.