__NOTOC__ The Montana Coyote is an American single-engined two-seat STOL aircraft designed for home building by Montana Coyote Inc. of Helena, Montana.

Design and development

The Coyote is a high-wing

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 ...

monoplane 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 ...

first flown in early 1991 and sold as kit for

home building Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building generally referred to as a ' home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside ...

without an engine. With a steel tube

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...

and wooden wings it is designed to take an engine between 100 and 200 hp (74 to 149 kW) as long as it weighs less than 350 lb (159 kg). It has a fixed tailwheel type landing gear with a cabin for a pilot and passenger side-by-side, it is designed to land and take-off within 350 ft (107 m).

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* 1990s United States civil utility aircraft Homebuilt aircraft {{Aero-1990s-stub