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The Air Creation Tanarg is a French ultralight trike, designed and produced by Air Creation of Aubenas. The aircraft is supplied as complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 198-200. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X In the United Kingdom the Tanarg is amateur-built from kits supplied by Air Creation.
The Tanarg was designed as a long-range cruising trike to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of with a ballistic parachute. It is also an accepted Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the
Design and development
The Tanarg was designed as a long-range cruising trike to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of with a ballistic parachute. It is also an accepted Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the United States
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. The Tanarg features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem
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, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from mixed constriction, with bolted-together aluminium
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tubing, composites and carbon fibre
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panels, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. With the BioniX wing it has a span that is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant options include the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 582 engine and the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke
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, dual-ignition Rotax 912UL and Rotax 912ULS engines. With the 912 engine the aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload is .
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic trike, including the Air Creation iXess, Air Creation Nuvix, Air Creation Fun and Air Creation BioniX.
Specifications (Tanarg 912 trike with a BioniX 15 wing)
References
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* {{Air Creation aircraft 2000s French sport aircraft 2000s French ultralight aircraft Single-engined pusher aircraft Ultralight trikes Homebuilt aircraft Tanarg