Rogers Sportaire

The Rogers Sportaire is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed David M. Rogers and produced by Rogers Aircraft of Riverside, California, introduced in 1959. The aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, but plans are no longer available. Only one was built.

Design and development
The aircraft features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the 26.3 ft span wing made from wood, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. The engine used in the sole example is a 125 hp Lycoming O-290 powerplant.

The aircraft has an empty weight of 984 lb and a gross weight of 1600 lb, giving a useful load of 616 lb. With full fuel of 22 u.s.gal the payload is 484 lb.

Operational history
By October 2013 only one example had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.