The Stemme ASP S15 is a German two-seat powered sailplane designed and built by

Stemme Stemme AG is a German glider manufacturer. Aircraft production is complemented by service, maintenance and repair of their sports and personal aircraft. Starting in 2014 many Stemme glider structural components were made under contract by Remos A ...

for use as an Airborne Systems Platform.

Design and development

The ASP S15 is a two-seat single-engined, all composite construction, powered sailplane with the engine mounted in the center

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. The cockpit has room for two in

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. It has a

shoulder wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplane (aeronautics), multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowe ...

, a conventional

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and a retractable nose wheel landing gear. It can also be fitted with a 2-axis autopilot and external underwing payload pods. The ASP S15-1 was granted a restricted

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by the

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in October 2013.EASA Type Certificate Data Sheet Stemme ASP S15-1
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Variant

;ASP S15-1 :Airborne Systems Platform which can be fitted with a 2-axis autopilot and external underwing payload pods.

Specifications

References

External links

* {{Stemme aircraft

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Motor gliders 2000s German civil utility aircraft Shoulder-wing aircraft Mid-engined aircraft Aircraft first flown in 2009 T-tail aircraft