The Jabiru J160 is an Australian

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trainer, designed and produced by

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. Certified in the Australian

primary aircraft category A standard certificate of airworthiness is a permit for commercial passenger or cargo operation, issued for an aircraft by the civil aviation authority in the state/nation in which the aircraft is registered. For other aircraft such as crop-spraye ...

, the aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 63-64. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Design and development

The J160 features a

strut-braced In aeronautics, bracing comprises additional structural members which stiffen the functional airframe to give it rigidity and strength under load. Bracing may be applied both internally and externally, and may take the form of strut, which act in ...

high-wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

, an enclosed cabin with two-seats-in-

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accessed by doors, fixed

tricycle landing gear Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or ''landing gear'', arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in the front, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle g ...

and a single engine in

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. The aircraft is made from

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. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The standard engine available is the

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powerplant. The design was developed into the

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, by adding the wing from the

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, for the

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category.

Variants

;J160-C :Early model ;J160-D :Certified version

Specifications (J160)

References

External links

* {{Jabiru Aircraft J160 2000s Australian civil trainer aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft