The Gobosh 800XP is an American
light-sport aircraft
A light-sport aircraft (LSA), or light sport aircraft, is a fairly new category of small, lightweight aircraft that are simple to fly. LSAs tend to be heavier and more sophisticated than ultralight (aka "microlight") aircraft, but LSA restrictio ...
marketed by
Gobosh Aviation of
Moline, Illinois
Moline ( ) is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in 2020, it is the largest city in Rock Island County. Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring East Moline, Illinois, East M ...
. The 800XP was introduced in 2008 and is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
[Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 57. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X]
By 2016 the company website had been taken down and the company had likely gone out of business.
Design and development
The 800XP is a development of the
Aveko VL-3 Sprint, adapted to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules, by increasing the wing area and raising the gross weight from . It features a cantilever
low-wing, a two-seats-in-
side-by-side configuration
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction.
The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...
enclosed open cockpit under a forward-hinged
bubble canopy, fixed
tricycle landing gear
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and a single engine in
tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from composites. Its span wing has an area of and mounts
winglets. The standard engine available is the
Rotax 912ULS four-stroke
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...
powerplant.
Specifications (800XP)
References
External links
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