A-B Helicopters A/W 95
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox aircraft The A-B Helicopters A/W 95 is an American helicopter, produced by A-B Helicopters in the form of plans for amateur construction.<ref name="WDLA11">Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 189. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X</ref>
By 2012 the A-B Helicopters website had been taken down and plans are no longer available.<ref name="AB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The design was developed into the Vortech A/W 95 and plans for that version remain available from Vortech.<ref name="KitplanesFeb2005">Downey, Julia: 2005 Trikes 'Chutes and Rotorcraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 22, Number 2, February 2005, page 60. Belvoir Publications. Template:ISSN</ref>
Design and development
The A/W 95 is a development of the Adams-Wilson Choppy, which the A/W designation acknowledges. The A/W 95 was designed to comply with the US Experimental Amateur-built rules, since the empty weight is too heavy for the FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, which stipulates a maximum empty weight of Template:Convert. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of Template:Convert. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, skid landing gear and a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Template:Convert Rotax 503 engine.<ref name="WDLA11" />
The aircraft fuselage is an open frame made from bolted-together and gusseted aluminum tubing. Its Template:Convert diameter two-bladed extruded aluminum rotor has a chord of Template:Convert and employs a symmetrical airfoil. The transmission is constructed from a belt and chain mechanism. With its standard empty weight of Template:Convert and a gross weight of Template:Convert, the useful load is Template:Convert. Fuel tank capacity is Template:Convert, rendering a full-fuel payload of Template:Convert.<ref name="WDLA11" />
While the A/W 95 is primarily plans-built, during the time that A-B Helicopters was in business some pre-fabricated parts were available.<ref name="WDLA11" />
Operational history
By January 2013 two examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.<ref name="FAAReg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
