LiteWing Aircraft LiteWing
The LiteWing Aircraft LiteWing, also called the Lite Wing Trike, is an American ultralight trike that was designed and produced by LiteWing Aircraft of Caryville, Tennessee in the late 1990s. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction. Design and development
The aircraft was designed to be a US homebuilt aircraft as its empty weight exceeds the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, which imposes a category maximum empty weight of . The LiteWing has a standard empty weight of . It features a  cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit with a three-piece fiberglass cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft is made from welded and bolted 6061-T6 aluminum tubing, with its NorthWing 157  wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. The engine factory supplied was the  Rotax 447 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled aircraft engine. The aircraft can accept engines of . Brakes on the main wheels are standard equipment. Twenty examples had been completed and flown by February 2000. Specifications (LiteWing)

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1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
LiteWing Aircraft aircraft