The Jabiru J230 is an Australian

light-sport aircraft A light-sport aircraft (LSA), or light sport aircraft, is a fairly new category of small, lightweight aircraft that are simple to fly. LSAs tend to be heavier and more sophisticated than ultralight (aka "microlight") aircraft, but LSA restrictio ...

, designed and produced by

Jabiru Aircraft Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd is an Australian aircraft manufacturer that produces a range of kit- and ready-built civil light aircraft in Bundaberg, Queensland. The company also designs and manufactures a range of light aircraft engines. Types pas ...

. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.Vandermeullen, Richard: ''2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide'', Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 57. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 64. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. 19-4960 Jabiru J230 (8543306791)

Design and development

The J230 is a two-seat development of the four-seat

Jabiru J430 The Jabiru J430 is one model in a large family of two- and four-seat Australian light aircraft developed as a touring aircraft and provided in kit form by Jabiru Aircraft.Vandermeullen, Richard: ''2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide'', Kitplanes, V ...

, optimized for the US light-sport category, which is restricted to two seats. The J230 uses the same wings and

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...

as the J430, but deletes the back seats, leaving a large baggage compartment. While the J430 has a gross weight of , the J230 is restricted to a gross weight of . The J230 features a

strut-braced In aeronautics, bracing comprises additional structural members which stiffen the functional airframe to give it rigidity and strength under load. Bracing may be applied both internally and externally, and may take the form of strut, which act in ...

high-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 ...

, a two-seats-in-

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enclosed cockpit with a large rear baggage compartment, 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

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. The cockpit is wide The aircraft is made from composites. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The aircraft's recommended installed engine power and the standard engine used is the

Jabiru 3300 The Jabiru 3300 is a lightweight four-stroke, horizontally opposed "flat-six" air-cooled aircraft engine produced by Jabiru Aircraft. The engines are direct drive and fitted with alternators, silencers, vacuum pump drives and dual ignition syst ...

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. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 600 hours. The design is approved for night flying. The J230 has a standard empty weight of , which combined with a full fuel capacity of and a gross weight of leaves for crew, passenger and cargo with full fuel. The J230 is listed on the

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's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.

Operational history

By December 2011 one hundred examples had been registered and flown worldwide.

Specifications (J230)

References

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