Custom Flight Lite Star

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Lite Star
Role Amateur-built aircraft
National origin Canada
Manufacturer Custom Flight
StatusIn production (2016)
Number built2 (2011)
Developed from Custom Flight North Star

The Custom Flight Lite Star, or Light Star, is a Canadian amateur-built and light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Custom Flight of Tiny, Ontario. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or complete ready-to-fly. [1]

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Design and development

The Lite Star features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit that is 39.8 in (101 cm) wide, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. [1]

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, with the wing constructed from aluminum sheet, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 30.5 ft (9.3 m) span wing has an area of 160 sq ft (15 m2) and has no flaps. The wing is supported by "V"-struts and jury struts. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is 65 to 110 hp (48 to 82 kW) and standard engines used include the 110 hp (82 kW) Chevrolet Corvair automotive conversion four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is 400 hours. [1]

Operational history

By December 2016 two examples had been registered with Transport Canada as Light Stars. [2]

As of December 2016, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft. [3]

Specifications (Lite Star)

Data from Kitplanes [1]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 49. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  2. Transport Canada (3 December 2016). "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register" . Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. Federal Aviation Administration (26 September 2016). "SLSA Make/Model Directory" . Retrieved 3 December 2016.