General Aviation Design Bureau T-2 Maverick

The General Aviation Design Bureau T-2 Maverick is a Ukrainian ultralight trike, designed and produced by the General Aviation Design Bureau of Ukraine, based in Kyiv. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The T-2 was produced starting in 1995 as a trainer for western markets under subcontract, but is now sold under the General Aviation Design Bureau's own name.

The T-2 Maverick was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 450 to 540 kg depending on the version. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration open cockpit with two separate cockpit fairings, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft's structure is made from tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 10.2 m span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Powerplants available are the twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 50 hp Rotax 503 engine, the liquid-cooled 64 hp Rotax 582 engine or the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 80 hp Rotax 912UL engine.

The aircraft has an empty weight of 190 kg and a gross weight of 450 to 540 kg depending on the version, giving a useful load of 260 to 350 kg. With full fuel of 30 L the payload is 238 to 328 kg.

Two different wings have been supplied as standard, initially the Maverick 14.7 and, since 2000, the larger Maverick II with a wing area of 16.5 m2.