SITAR GY-90 Mowgli

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GY-90 Mowgli
Rolecivil utility aircraft
National originFrance
ManufacturerSITAR for homebuilding
Designer Yves Gardan

The SITAR GY-90 Mowgli [1] was a light aircraft designed in France in the late 1960s and marketed for homebuilding. [2] [3] [4] Designer Yves Gardan intended it to be a smaller and simpler version of his Bagheera, [2] [3] [4] a conventional low-wing, cantilever monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage and a fully enclosed cabin. [2] [3] However, although the Bagheera had seating for up to four people in 2+2 configuration, [2] the Mowgli had no rear seat and could seat only two people, with space behind the seats for luggage. [2] [3] [4] Like the Bagheera, construction was of metal throughout. [2] The Mowgli was designed to use either a 67-kW (90-hp) or 75-kW (100-hp) Continental flat-4 engine. [2]

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The Mowgli was available in the form of plans and kits, [3] [4] and plans continued to be available even after SITAR closed in 1972. [5] The first example was expected to fly in 1970. [2]


Specifications (as designed, with 67-kW engine)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1971–72 [2]

General characteristics

Performance


Notes

  1. ↑ SITAR marketed three designs: the Bagheera, the Mowgli, and the Sher Khan. The GY-100 Bagheera was named after Bagheera, a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2857). Mowgli and Sher Khan are characters in the same book.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Taylor 1971 , p. 78
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2857
  4. 1 2 3 4 Taylor 1989 , p. 825
  5. ↑ Gunston 1993 , p. 282

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