The Issoire APM 30 Lion is a French three-seat light aircraft manufactured by
Issoire Aviation
Issoire Aviation, established in Issoire, France, 30 km (19 mi) from Clermont-Ferrand, is an aircraft manufacturer founded in 1978 to take on the work of Wassmer Aviation. It was rebuilt by Philippe Moniot in 1995 and is today a subsid ...
of
Issoire. Designed as a
trainer, the aircraft is
type certified under
CS-VLA
EASA CS-VLA is the European Aviation Safety Agency Certification Specification for Very Light Aircraft.
The Very Light Aircraft (VLA) aircraft certification category introduced in 2003 by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is intended to ...
and is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 153. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
Design and development
The aircraft features a cantilever
low-wing, a three-seat enclosed cockpit under a
bubble canopy, fixed
tricycle landing gear with
wheel pants and a single engine in
tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from
composite materials. Its span wing employs a
NACA 63-618 airfoil
An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is the cross-sectional shape of an object whose motion through a gas is capable of generating significant lift, such as a wing, a sail, or the blades of propeller, rotor, or turbine.
...
, has an area of and mounts
flaps. The standard engine is the
Rotax 912S four-stroke
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...
powerplant.
Specifications
References
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Low-wing aircraft
2000s French civil utility aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 2005
APM30