Chayair Sycamore
The Chayair Sycamore is a South African autogyro, designed and produced by Chayair of Musina. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. Design and development The Sycamore features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in-tandem open or optionally enclosed cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition turbocharged Rotax 914F engine in pusher configuration. The Subaru EJ22 is optional. The aircraft fuselage is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing and mounts a diameter Advanced Kinetics rotor. The tailplane features five vertical tail surfaces for improved directional stability. The enclosed Sycamore Mk 1 version has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . Operational history By December 2012 one example had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in the Experimental - Amateur-built category. Variants Sycamore Mk 1 Enclosed cockpit version Sycamore Mk 2000 Open cockpit version Specifications (Sycamore Mk 1) References External links Official Sycamore Mk 1 photos 2000s South African sport aircraft Homebuilt aircraft Single-engined pusher autogyros