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The Let-Mont Piper UL is a Czech microlight aircraft that was designed and produced by Let-Mont sro of Vikýřovice. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or a kit for amateur construction.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 195. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The aircraft was designed to comply with the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . It was also marketed in the United States as a kit only for the US homebuilt category.〔 The Piper UL is based on early Piper Aircraft designs, such as the Piper PA-15 Vagabond, which it resembles. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.〔 The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the whole aircraft covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing, mounts flaps, has a wing area of and is supported by "V" struts and jury struts. The standard engine used is the Rotax 503 two-stroke powerplant.〔 The Piper UL has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .〔 The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 800 hours.〔 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「Let-Mont Piper UL」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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