title: Jodel D18
text: # Jodel D18
  
  The Jodel D18 is a French ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Jodel.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The original amateur-built category D18 was adapted to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules with the addition of larger flaps and renamed the D185. Both the D18 and D185 feature a cantilever low wing, two seats in a side-by-side enclosed cockpit configuration, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
  
  A tricycle landing gear-equipped version is designated D19 for the amateur-built category and D195 for the microlight category.
  
  All the aircraft in the series are all made with a wooden structure, covered in doped aircraft fabric. The 7.50 m (24.6 ft) span wing employs polyhedral configuration with the outer wing panels exhibiting much greater dihedral. Engines used include the 85 hp (63 kW) Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplant as well as Rotax, Limbach Flugmotoren and 58 hp (43 kW) Volkswagen 1600 automotive engines.
  
  ## Variants
  
  ### D18
  
      Original design for the amateur-built category.
  
  ### D185
  
      Model with tailwheel landing gear and larger flaps for the European microlight category.
  
  ### D19
  
      Model with tricycle landing gear for the amateur-built category.
  
  ### D195
  
      Model with tricycle landing gear and larger flaps for the European microlight category.
  
  ## Specifications (D185)
  
  Data from Bayerl
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one
  * Capacity: one passenger
  * Wingspan: 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in)
  * Wing area: 10.5 $m^2$ (113 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 230 kg (507 lb)
  * Gross weight: 450 kg (992 lb)
  * Fuel capacity: 65 litres (14 imp gal; 17 US gal)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Jabiru 2200 four cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke aircraft engine, 63 kW (85 hp)
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 235 km/h (146 mph, 127 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 220 km/h (140 mph, 120 kn)
  * Stall speed: 60 km/h (37 mph, 32 kn)
  * Rate of climb: 6 m/s (1,200 ft/min)
  