Best Off Skyranger

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Best Off Aviation Skyranger being tied down at Sun 'n Fun 2006

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Skyranger cockpit with optional extended panel

The Best Off Skyranger (also Sky Ranger, SkyRanger) is a French-designed two-seat ultralight utility aircraft, produced by Best Off, of Toulouse. It is a high-wing conventional monoplane with tricycle undercarriage, and of fabric-covered tubular construction.<ref name="JAWA03 p118" /><ref name="WDLA11">Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 33. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X</ref>

The Skyranger is also manufactured under licence by Aero Bravo in Brazil, SkyRanger Aircraft in the United States (as a kit), Aeros in Ukraine and at least 150 were built by Synairgie in France, too.<ref name="Aerocrafter">Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 265. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. Template:ISBN</ref> Because of the aircraft being manufactured by many companies, names such as Aeros Skyranger, Synairgie Skyranger etc. are used for the aircraft.

Some 900 are flying throughout the world.<ref name="JAWA03 p118" />

Variants

Skyranger

Original model, introduced 1990.<ref name="WDLA11" />

Skyranger Vfun

Renamed original model for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight class. Standard engines available are the Template:Convert Rotax 582 two-stroke, the Template:Convert Rotax 912UL, the Template:Convert Rotax 912ULS, Template:Convert Jabiru 2200, the Template:Convert VW and the Template:Convert HKS 700E four-stroke powerplants. The aircraft has also been equipped with the JLT Motors Ecoyota engine.<ref name="WDLA11" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Skyranger Vmax

Improved model for United Kingdom BCAR Section "S" certification, with ventral fin. Standard engines available are the Template:Convert Rotax 582 two-stroke, the Template:Convert Rotax 912UL, the Template:Convert Rotax 912ULS, Template:Convert Jabiru 2200, the Template:Convert VW and the Template:Convert HKS 700E four-stroke powerplants.<ref name="WDLA11" /><ref name="WDLA15"/>

Skyranger Swift

Improved model based on the Vmax for the US light-sport aircraft market, with reduced wingspan.<ref name="Swift">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Reusable Bomber Drones

On 26 April 2024, 6 photos surfaced online, taken somewhere in Russia, which appeared to show a crashed Skyranger Swift 2 fitted with a single OFAB-100-120 bomb. Along with other equipment to allow for it to become a “remotely piloted bomber”. Skyranger had been contacted and said it could be an existing aircraft or one built from a kit worth $55,000.00. Ukraine has previously modified a Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat into a kamikaze drone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

Comparable aircraft

• Ikarus C42
• Raj Hamsa X-Air "H" Hanuman

References

• Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 2003. Template:ISBN.

External links

• Official website