Shark Aircraft Shark
The Fly-Fan Shark, unrelated despite the shared name to Shark.Aero's single-engine Shark LSA, is a Slovak-designed light twin first flown on 29 June 2011, developed by Frantisek Sustek and Fly-Fan of Trencin and later continued under AENEA Services. Its Kevlar and carbon-fibre airframe seats one pilot and four passengers in a low-wing cabin with retractable tricycle gear, powered by two wing-mounted 160 hp Lycoming O-320 engines chosen to match typical light-twin performance on roughly 30 percent less power. Cruising near 260 km/h, it was first shown as a mock-up at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2007, four years before its maiden flight.
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Not to be confused with Shark.Aero's LSA: this Shark is a Slovak Kevlar-and-carbon light twin with retractable gear.
Specifications
| Length | 6.7 m (22 ft) |
|---|---|
| Wingspan | 7.9 m (26 ft) |
| Persons on board | 2 |
| Maximum take-off weight | 0.5 t |
| Service ceiling | 13,000 ft (3,962 m) |
| Optimum ceiling | 8,000 ft (2,438 m) |
| Rate of climb | 1,400 ft/min (7.1 m/s) |
| Fuel capacity | 100 l |
Curated by CatchFlights from manufacturer documents, ICAO Doc 8643 and reference works; values are left out where no source could confirm them. Sources are listed on our credits page.
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