SITAR GY-100 Bagheera

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GY-100 Bagheera
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RoleCivil utility aircraft
National origin France
ManufacturerSITAR
Designer Yves Gardan
First flight20 [1] or 21 December 1967 [2]
Number built2 [1]

The SITAR GY-100 Bagheera (named after Bagheera, a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book [2] ) was a light aircraft designed and built in France in the late 1960s. [3] [4] Designed by Yves Gardan, it was a low-wing, cantilever monoplane of conventional layout with fixed, tricycle undercarriage. [2] The fully enclosed cabin had seating for up to four people in 2+2 configuration. [3] [5] Construction was of metal throughout. [2]

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Type certification was granted in 1971, [6] and Gardan hoped to market the Bagheera through his company, SITAR. [2] However, with the oil crisis looming [6] and after the prototype disintegrated in flight, [5] Gardan abandoned development. [5] [6] Only two examples were built. [1]


Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1971–72 [7]

General characteristics

Performance


Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Parmentier
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2857
  3. 1 2 "New from France" 1968, p.749
  4. Taylor 1989, p.825
  5. 1 2 3 Roy 2009
  6. 1 2 3 Noetinger
  7. Taylor 1971, p. 78

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