BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas ( en, BRM Aircraft Manufacturing) is a
Portuguese
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aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology indust ...
based in
Pêro Pinheiro,
Sintra
Sintra (, ) is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 377,835, in an area of . Sintra is one of the most urbanized and densely populat ...
. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
ultralight aircraft in the form kits for
amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft for the European
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with aile ...
category.
[Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', pages 33-34. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company is noted as one of very few light aircraft manufacturers located in Portugal, a country not known for aircraft production.
BRM's aircraft are built with
aluminium
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. I ...
sheet "all-metal" construction. The company's first light two-seat
STOL design was the
BRM Okavango, which was superseded by the
BRM Land Africa. The
BRM Citius is an improved model, with a higher cruise speed. The company also produces a
low-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 ...
design, the two-seat
BRM Argos
The BRM Argos is a Portuguese ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviat ...
.
Chris Heintz, the designer of the
Zenith STOL CH 701
The Zenith STOL CH 701 and CH 750 are a family of light, two-place kit-built STOL aircraft designed by Canadian aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz through his Midland, Ontario based company, Zenair. The CH 701 first flew in 1986 an ...
considers the Land Africa an unauthorized copy of the CH 701.
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Aircraft manufacturers of Portugal
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
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