The Peña Bilouis is a French

aerobatic Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glid ...

amateur-built aircraft Homebuilt aircraft, also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. These aircraft may be constructed from "scratch", from plans, or from assembly kits.Armstrong, Kenn ...

that was designed by the competitive aerobatic pilot Louis Peña of Dax, Landes and made available in the form of plans for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 109. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 115. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Design and development

The Bilouis is a development of the single-seat

Peña Capeña The Peña Capeña is a French aerobatic amateur-built aircraft that was designed by competitive aerobatic pilot Louis Peña of Dax, Landes and made available in the form of plans for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al ...

and like the Capeña is

. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in- tandem enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The Bilouis is made from wood. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The standard recommended engines are the Lycoming O-360 and the fuel-injected Lycoming IO-360

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 ...

powerplants.

Specifications (Bilouis)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pena Bilouis Homebuilt aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aerobatic aircraft