ELA 10 Eclipse

The ELA Aviation ELA 10 Eclipse is a Spanish, two-seat, enclosed autogyro, designed and built by ELA Aviación of Córdoba, Andalusia. It was introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen airshow in 2014. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The ELA 10 Eclipse has a single main rotor, a two-seats-in tandem enclosed cockpit with a bubble canopy, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, plus a tail caster and a four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke 100 hp Rotax 912 ULS or turbocharged 115 hp Rotax 914 engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from composites. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of 8.50 m and a chord of 22 cm. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 275 kg and a gross weight of 530 kg with the Rotax 914 engine (530 kg with the Rotax 912 ULS engine), giving a useful load of 255 kg. With full fuel of 100 L the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is 183 kg.