The General Aviation Design Bureau of Ukraine is a
Ukrainian 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
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
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. The company specializes in aerospace
subcontract work, often for European and North American manufacturers.
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The organization has also designed and manufactured
ultralight trike
An ultralight trike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift. These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller. The pod accommodates either a ...
s, starting initially as a sub-contractor for designs like the
T-2 Maverick for the western
training
Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, productivity and performance. I ...
market and then later producing the design under its own name. The T-2 has an unusual
side-by-side configuration
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction.
The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...
that makes it especially well suited for use as a trainer.
The
General Aviation Design Bureau T-32 Maverick is an original design and noted as an unusual three-seat ultralight trike design, with a double rear seat for two passengers.
Aircraft
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Aircraft manufacturers of Ukraine
Manufacturing companies based in Kyiv
Ultralight trikes
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