The company appears to have gone out of business in late 2007 and production ended.[2] [3]
The Navigathor is a development of the earlier ATE, which stands for Air-Terre-Eau (English: Air-Land-Water) and indicates that the vehicle is capable of being used as a flying car with a top road speed of 1500NaN0 or as a boat with a top water speed of 70NaN0.[1]
As an aircraft the Navigathor was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of metal tubing and composites and features a wedge-shaped boat hull. It features a 46m2 parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem in an open cockpit, four-wheeled cross country all terrain vehicle style landing gear and a single 1050NaN0 Hirth F-30 four-cylinder, horizontally opposed, two-stroke, aircraft engine, mounted in pusher configuration. In all modes the vehicle is powered by its ducted propeller.[1]
The vehicle has an empty weight of 2300NaN0 and a gross weight of 4500NaN0, giving a useful load of 2200NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1950NaN0.[1]