Custom Flight Lite Star Explained

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]

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 39.80NaN0 wide, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

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 30.51NaN1 span wing has an area of 160square feet and has no flaps. The wing is supported by "V"-struts and jury struts. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is 65to and standard engines used include the 1100NaN0 Chevrolet Corvair automotive conversion four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is 400 hours.

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]

Notes and References

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