__NOTOC__ The Monnett Moni is a sport aircraft developed in the United States in the early 1980s and marketed for homebuilding. Designed by

John Monnett Sonex Aircraft, LLC is an American kit aircraft manufacturer located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, producing kits for four all-metal homebuilt monoplanes. The company was founded in 1998 by John Monnett, who has designed the Monnett Sonerai spor ...

, who coined the term "air recreation vehicle" to describe it, it is a single-seat motorglider with a low, cantilever wing and a V-tail. Construction is of metal throughout, and it is intended to be easy and inexpensive to build and fly. Like many sailplanes, the main undercarriage is a single monowheel, which in this case was mounted in a streamlined fairing beneath the fuselage and is not retractable, with a steerable tailwheel behind it. Builders are also given the option of constructing their example with fixed tricycle undercarriage.''Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1984-85'', 756 Power is provided by a small two-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled engine. Moni-SUH

Examples of the Moni are on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum, and the

EAA AirVenture Museum The EAA Aviation Museum, formerly the EAA AirVenture Museum (or Air Adventure Museum), is a museum dedicated to the preservation and display of historic and experimental aircraft as well as antiques, classics, and warbirds. The museum is ...

Variants

The Sonex Xenos motorglider is an evolution of the Moni, and provided much of the design foundation for the Sonex line of aircraft.Rozansky, Murry
"Soaring with Sonex: Designer John Monnett returns to the motorglider scene with the two-place Xenos,"
April 2005, '' Kitplanes,'' retrieved August 22, 2020'' The all-electric-powered

Electric Aircraft Corporation ElectraFlyer-C The Electric Aircraft Corporation ElectraFlyer-C is an American experimental electric aircraft that was designed by Randall Fishman and produced by his company Electric Aircraft Corporation in 2008. The aircraft is a converted Monnett Moni moto ...

is a modified Monnett Moni in

taildragger Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms ...

configuration.Laboda, Amy
"ElectraFlyer-C Concept Airplane Flying,"
August 1, 2008, '' Kitplanes'' retrieved August 22, 2020

Specifications (with tricycle gear)

Notes

References

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