SKT Skyrider 06

The SKT Skyrider 06 is a Swiss helicopter, designed and produced by SKT Swiss Kopter Technology SA of Ambrì. It was first flown in 2013 and entered series production in January 2014. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Skyrider development was started in December 2011. In June 2013 the company was formed to produce the aircraft and the first production examples were completed in January 2014.

The design features a single main rotor and tail rotor, a two-seats-in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with a windshield, skid landing gear and a four-cylinder, liquid-cooled, four stroke 155 hp Italian MW Fly B22 AeroPower piston engine.

The aircraft fuselage is made from steel tubing, with a carbon fibre composite cockpit and tailboom. The aircraft's composite three-bladed main rotor has a diameter of 7.0 m. The composite tail rotor has two blades and a diameter of 1.4 m. The cabin width is 130 cm. The aircraft has a gross weight of 600 kg. With full fuel of 110 L the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is 230 kg.

Reviewer Werner Pfaendler, describes it as an "elegant design".

Operational history
By January 2018 one example had been registered in Canada with Transport Canada under the Special Certificate of Airworthiness Limited category.