TL Ultralight TL-22 Duo

The TL Ultralight TL-22 Duo is a Czech ultralight trike that was designed and produced by TL Ultralight of Hradec Králové. Production has been completed, but when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft 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 361 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 a fibreglass cockpit fairing and its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 10.6 m span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost, uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar and has a wing area of 13.8 m2. The standard powerplant used is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 64 hp Rotax 582 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 160 kg and a gross weight of 361 kg, giving a useful load of 201 kg. With full fuel of 42 L the payload is 171 kg.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 50 aircraft were flying.