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The Avid Champion is an American single-seat, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was produced starting in 1998 as a kit by Avid Aircraft of Caldwell, Idaho, later Ennis, Montana.〔Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page B-12. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4〕〔Downey, Julia: ''1999 Kit Aircraft Directory'', Kitplanes, Volume 15, Number 12, December 1998, page 38. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851〕 Avid Aircraft went out of business in November 2003 and the aircraft kits are no longer available. ==Development== The Champion was created by scaling down the Avid Mark IV and narrowing the wider fuselage into a single seat design intended to comply with the US FAR 103 ''Ultralight Vehicles'' category.〔 The design is a conventional tractor configuration, featuring tube and aircraft fabric construction. The main landing gear is bungee suspended and includes a steerable tailwheel. Like other Avid designs, the wing has an under-cambered airfoil, Junkers style ailerons and scalloped trailing edges. The wing can be folded for storage and the aircraft can be towed on its wheels behind a car. The wing folding mechanism does not include automatic connecting ailerons. The cockpit will accommodate a pilot up to in height and in weight. Two door options were originally available, a Piper J-3 Cub-style horizontally split door or an overhead-hinged door.〔〔 The Champion only meets the US FAR 103 ultralight vehicle category maximum empty weight limit of , with the lightest of single cylinder, two-stroke engines installed, such as the Rotax 277 and the removal of the cowling, brakes, doors and most of the instruments. When the kit was available, the company did not provide an engine for it, leaving the choice of engines and compliance with FAR 103 restrictions up to the owner. The standard empty weight with the Rotax 447 powerplant was . The aircraft qualifies as an amateur-built in many countries including the USA and Canada.〔 Building time to complete the kit was reported by the company to be 160 hours. When the aircraft was introduced in 1998 the kit cost was US$8995, without an engine. Complete airframes, also without an engine, were available for US$12,995.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avid Champion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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