The Alpi Pioneer 300 Kite is an Italian light-sport aircraft designed and produced by Alpi Aviation of Pordenone. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 26. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Design and development

The aircraft was designed to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a cantilever

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, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-

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under a

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, 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

tractor configuration In aviation, the term tractor configuration refers to an aircraft constructed in the standard configuration with its engine mounted with the propeller in front of it so that the aircraft is "pulled" through the air. Oppositely, the pusher co ...

. The Pioneer 300 Kite is a higher take-off weight and fixed gear version of the Alpi Pioneer 300, with improved maneuverability for flight training. Apart from being available fully assembled it is also available as two different kits, one a 51% kit and the other ''EuroKit'', which includes a factory assembled airframe, but lacks the engine installation. The aircraft is made from wood and covered with

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. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. Standard engines available are the

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, as well as the

Rotax 912ULS The Rotax 912 is a horizontally-opposed four-cylinder, naturally aspirated, four-stroke aircraft engine with a reduction gearbox. It features liquid-cooled cylinder heads and air-cooled cylinders. Originally equipped with carburetors, later ...

and 912iS four-stroke powerplants. As of January 2017, the design does not appear on the

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's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.

Specifications (Pioneer 300 Kite)

References

External links

Official website
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