The DTA Evolution is a French
ultralight trike, designed and produced by
DTA sarl of
Montélimar. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
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Design and development
The aircraft was designed as a simple trike, with an exceptional payload, to comply with the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
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microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It features a
cable-braced hang glider-style
high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-
tandem open cockpit without a
cockpit fairing,
tricycle landing gear with
wheel pants and a single engine in
pusher configuration
In an aircraft with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s). Since a pusher propeller is mounted behind the engine, the drive shaft is in compression in nor ...
.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together
aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in
Dacron sailcloth. Its span
DTA Dynamic 16 wing is supported by a single tube-type
kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, air-cooled,
two-stroke,
dual-ignition Rotax 503 engine, with the liquid cooled
Rotax 582, the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled,
four-stroke
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,
dual-ignition Rotax 912
The Rotax 912 is a horizontally-opposed four-cylinder, naturally aspirated, four-stroke aircraft engine with a reduction gearbox. It features liquid-cooled cylinder heads and air-cooled cylinders. Originally equipped with carburetors, late ...
or
Rotax 912S engines optional.
With the Rotax 503 and the Dynamic 16 wing, the aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload is .
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the
DTA Dynamic,
DTA Diva and the
strut-braced
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DTA Magic.
Operational history
In September 2003 a French flying team flew an Evolution from
Paris to
Dakar, making use of the aircraft's high payload to carry all needed supplies.
Specifications (Evolution with Dynamic 16 wing)
References
External links
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Evolution
2000s French sport aircraft
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes