Avid Champion
| Avid Champion | |
|---|---|
| Role | Ultralight aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Avid Aircraft |
| Designer | Dean Wilson |
| First flight | 1998 |
| Introduction | 1998 |
| Status | Kits no longer available after November 2003 |
| Developed from | Avid Mark IV |
The Avid Champion is an American single-seat, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was produced starting in 1998 as a kit by Avid Aircraft of Caldwell, Idaho, later Ennis, Montana.
Avid Aircraft went out of business in November 2003 and the aircraft kits are no longer available.
The Champion was created by scaling down the Avid Mark IV and narrowing the wider fuselage into a single seat design intended to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category.
The design is a conventional tractor configuration, featuring tube and aircraft fabric construction. The main landing gear is bungee suspended and includes a steerable tailwheel. Like other Avid designs, the wing has an under-cambered airfoil, Junkers style ailerons and scalloped trailing edges. The wing can be folded for storage and the aircraft can be towed on its wheels behind a car. The wing folding mechanism does not include automatic connecting ailerons. The cockpit will accommodate a pilot up to 6.5 ft (2.0 m) in height and 300 lb (136 kg) in weight. Two door options were originally available, a Piper J-3 Cub-style horizontally split door or an overhead-hinged door.
The Champion only meets the US FAR 103 ultralight vehicle category maximum empty weight limit of 254 lb (115 kg), with the lightest of single cylinder, two-stroke engines installed, such as the 28 hp (21 kW) Rotax 277 and the removal of the cowling, brakes, doors and most of the instruments. When the kit was available, the company did not provide an engine for it, leaving the choice of engines and compliance with FAR 103 restrictions up to the owner. The standard empty weight with the 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 powerplant was 284 lb (129 kg). The aircraft qualifies as an amateur-built in many countries including the USA and Canada.
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