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The Direct Fly ArGO is a Czech Republic, Czech ultralight aircraft, ultralight and light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Direct Fly sro of Hluk, introduced at the Blois fly-in show in France, in 2011. When it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 43. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.


Design and development

The ArGO was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) microlight rules and US light-sport aircraft (LSA) rules, with different versions at different gross weights for each category. It features a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cabin with two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration accessed by doors, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing covered in aluminum sheet. The flying surfaces are made from aluminum sheet. Its span wing has an area of and mounts Flap (aircraft), Fowler flaps. Standard engines available are the Rotax 912UL and the Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplants. As of February 2017, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.


Variants

;arGO ULL :Model with a gross weight of for the FAI microlight category. ;arGO LSA/ELSA :Model with a gross weight of for the US LSA category.


Specifications (ArGO ULL)


References


External links


Official website
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