DTA Voyageur explained

The DTA Voyageur is a French ultralight trike, designed by Jean-Michel Dizier and produced by DTA sarl of Montélimar. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.[1] [2]

Design and development

The aircraft was initially designed as an agricultural aircraft to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. The Voyageur is intended as a bush aircraft for flying from unprepared surfaces and as such mounts heavy duty landing gear, tundra tires and lacks a cockpit fairing and a front wing strut.

The Voyageur has a maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0, depending on the wing fitted. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. When fitted with a DTA Dynamic 450 wing it has a span of 10.21NaN1, supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine or the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 1000NaN0 Rotax 912S engine.

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the DTA Dynamic 450, the DTA Dynamic 15/430 DTA Magic and DTA Diva.[3]

The Voyageur II model is accepted as a light-sport aircraft in the United States.[4]

Variants

Voyageur 582 Dynamic 15
  • Model with a 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine and DTA Dynamic 15 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 1770NaN0 and a gross weight of 4000NaN0, giving a useful load of 2230NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1730NaN0.
    Voyageur 912 S Dynamic 450
  • Model with a 1000NaN0 Rotax 912S engine and DTA Dynamic 450 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 2090NaN0 and a gross weight of 4500NaN0, giving a useful load of 2410NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1910NaN0.
    Voyageur II 582 Dynamic 15/430
  • Improved model with a 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine and DTA Dynamic 15/430 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 1960NaN0 and a gross weight of 4300NaN0, giving a useful load of 2340NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1800NaN0.
    Voyageur II 912 S Dynamic 450
  • Improved model with a 1000NaN0 Rotax 912S engine and DTA Dynamic 450 wing. The aircraft has an empty weight of 2260NaN0 and a gross weight of 4500NaN0, giving a useful load of 2240NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1700NaN0.

    Notes and References

    1. Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 210. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
    2. Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 99. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
    3. Web site: SLSA Make/Model Directory . 14 June 2013 . . 7 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130516004527/http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/light_sport/media/SLSA_Directory.xls . 16 May 2013 .
    4. Web site: EAA's Listing of Special Light-Sport Aircraft. 14 June 2013. Experimental Aircraft Association. 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140228070151/http://sportpilot.org/learn/slsa. 28 February 2014. dead.

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