Avama Stylus Explained

The Avama Stylus is a Slovak light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Avama of Poprad and introduced at AERO Friedrichshafen in 2010. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.[1] [2]

Design and development

The aircraft was designed to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules as a joint venture with SK Model. It features a strut-braced high-wing a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear or conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.[2]

The Stylus' fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, while the wing structure is aluminum. The fuselage and flying surfaces are covered in preformed plastic and doped aircraft fabric. Its 9.51NaN1 span wing employs a dual spar design with V-struts and jury struts. The standard engine is the 800NaN0 Rotax 912UL or the 1000NaN0 Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant.[2]

Variants

Stylus X2
  • Tailwheel version[2]
    Stylus X3
  • Nose wheel version[2]

    Notes and References

    1. Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 30. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
    2. Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 32. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.