BB Microlight is a
Hungarian aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry.
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based in
Baja, Hungary
Baja () is a city with county rights in , southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in the county, after the county seat at Kecskemét, and is home to some 35,000 people. Baja is the seat of the Baja municipality.
The environs of Baja have ...
. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
ultralight trike
An ultralight trike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift. These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller. The pod accommodates either a so ...
s and wings for trikes.
[Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 207. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company's aircraft have won many championships including the European Champion, Britain, 1994; the World Champion, South Africa, 1996; the First World Air Games Champion, Turkey, 1997; World Cup Championships, Hungary, 1998;
World Champion, Hungary 1999; World Champion Team, Hungary 1999; as well as seven other medals earned at International Championships.
BB Microlight works closely with their
US distributor, Manta Aircraft, to develop products. In the US their carriages are usually fitted with Manta RST wings in place of the BB supplied wings used in European sales. BB Microlight builds the
BB-01 Bence,
BB-02 Serpa and the
BB-03 Trya trike wings.
Much of the company design work is done in consultation with Hungarian competition pilots with the aim of producing competition aircraft.
Aircraft
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{{BB Microlight aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of Hungary
Hungarian brands
Ultralight trikes
Homebuilt aircraft