The Ganzavia GAK-22 Dinó was an unusual light utility aircraft built in
Hungary
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in the early 1990s. The craft was designed in the 1980s and was displayed in model form at the
1987 Paris Air Show.
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In configuration, it was a ]biplane
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with cantilever
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wings and a very pronounced negative stagger, making it almost a tandem wing
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design.[ The pilot and a single passenger sat side by side under an expansive ]bubble canopy
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, and it had a fixed tricycle undercarriage. The fuselage was of welded steel tube construction, and the wings of duralumin
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, with the whole aircraft skinned in fabric, other than the forward fuselage which had aluminium skin.[ A single prototype flew in 1993, but the project was abandoned by the mid-1990s, with the aircraft itself placed in the Transport Museum of Budapest (Közlekedési Múzeum).
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Ganzavia GAK-22 (in Hungarian)
GAK-22 Dino
1980s Hungarian civil utility aircraft
Biplanes with negative stagger
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1993
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
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