Texas Aircraft Stallion

The Texas Aircraft Stallion is a Brazilian and American special light-sport aircraft under development by INPAER of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, for production by its sister company, Texas Aircraft Manufacturing of Hondo, Texas. The chief designer is Caio Jordão. Intended for personal use and flight training, the design is expected to be first publicly shown at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida in April 2024. The aircraft is intended to be supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

one prototype had been built and flown by INPAER in Brazil.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Brazilian and American light-sport aircraft rules as expected to be modified under the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certificates (MOSAIC) rules. These new rules are expected to allow four seat LSAs up to a gross weight of 3000 lb, with a maximum 61 kn stall speed to be allowed in the US. Since Brazil has already approved the new regulations, the company expects to have the aircraft approved under the new rules in Brazil by mid-2024 and then in the US later.

The design features a strut-braced high-wing; a four-seat, enclosed cabin, accessed by extra-wide doors; fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum sheet over a welded 4130 steel cabin space frame. Standard engines available will be the 200 hp Lycoming IO-360 and 260 hp Lycoming IO-540 air-cooled, four-stroke powerplants.

Flight testing of the first prototype was underway in July 2023, at INPAER's plant in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.