The ELA Aviation ELA 10 Eclipse is a Spanish, two-seat, enclosed autogyro, designed and built by ELA Aviación of Córdoba, Andalusia. It was introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen airshow in 2014. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.[1] [2]
The ELA 10 Eclipse has a single main rotor, a two-seats-in tandem enclosed cockpit with a bubble canopy, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, plus a tail caster and a four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke 1000NaN0 Rotax 912 ULS or turbocharged 1150NaN0 Rotax 914 engine in pusher configuration.[1]
The aircraft fuselage is made from composites. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of 8.51NaN1 and a chord of 221NaN1. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 2750NaN0 and a gross weight of 5300NaN0 with the Rotax 914 engine (5300NaN0 with the Rotax 912 ULS engine), giving a useful load of 2550NaN0. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is 1830NaN0.[1]