Kompol Jazz

The Kompol Jazz is a Polish ultralight trike, designed and produced by Kompol of Świercze, Pułtusk County. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The Jazz was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 450 kg. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with 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. Its 9.83 m span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The standard supplied powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp Rotax 582 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 186 kg and a gross weight of 450 kg, giving a useful load of 264 kg. With full fuel of 40 L the payload is 235 kg.

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the Kompol Stratus 15 and the higher aspect ratio and smaller area Stratus 13. Other manufacturer's wings can also be used.

Operational history
The Jazz has been widely used in competition flying and has won many microlight events.