These spy photos show a new fixed-wing microlight aircraft due to be launched at the Popham Microlight Fair on 29 April.

Known as the SLA 100 Executive, it has been designed by Medway Microlights of Rochester, Kent, one of Britain’s oldest manufacturers of fl ex-wing microlights.

Boss Chris Draper said: “The newest British designed and built three-axis microlight will soon commence production on site at Medway Microlights. “It will be available as both a factory-built aircraft and as a staged kit.”

Two aircraft have been flying as prototypes for the past 18 months. It is conventional construction with fabric-covered aluminium tube and glassfibre cockpit.
Power can be a Rotax 912 or 912S fourstroke, or a Rotax 582 two-stroke. The aircraft is awaiting CAA approval and should cost around £36,000 as a factory-built.
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