Asso Aerei Srl (English: Ace Aircraft Limited) is an Italian designer of light and ultralight aircraft founded by Giuseppe (Bepi) Vidor. Vidor (died 23 September 2013 aged 72) was a carpenter who studied engineering at night school, and all his aircraft are wooden designs, most with tricycle landing gear. The aircraft are homebuilt from plans or from very basic kits. The name Vidor Asso is also used.
Asso ISide-by-side 2-seat taildragger built by Vidor based on the Piel Super Emeraude – one built 1980. It is also known as RD 95, after Vidor's friend and advisor, Robert Denize, who had collaborated with
Claude Piel. Another, built by Vidor, first flew in 1984.
Asso IIFour seater, also known as RD 30V, never flown because of the introduction of an Italian luxury tax based on aircraft weight.
Asso IIIUltralight to avoid the luxury tax, based on the Asso I but much lighter. Many kits sold.
Asso IV Whisky2-seat
tandem taildragger with fixed or retractable maingear. (Also known as Aerostar?)
Asso V Champion2-seat side-by-side, fixed or retractable gear (1995). Built by
Alpi Aviation with
composite skin panels as the
Pioneer 300.
Asso V JollyLower-power version of the V Champion.
Asso V X-RaySide-by-side version of the IX Warrior.
Asso VI JuniorA simplified III, fixed gear, plus a
glider version with greater
wingspan.
Asso VI EvolutionDevelopment of the Junior, with reduced wingspan, flaps and sliding canopy.
Asso VIIAsso VIII CentauroFiat G.55 scale replica based on the IV Whisky.
Asso IX Warrior2-seat tandem RG aerobatic tourer.
Asso X JewelLaminar flow wing tandem 2-seater development of the V Champion. Developed into the all-composite
Millennium Master (2006) which evolved into the
Blackshape Prime (2007).
Asso XI SprintProduction version of the VI Junior with steel tube
fuselage (2003).
Asso XIV SpitfireSupermarine Spitfire scale replica based on the IV Whisky.
Asso XVITandem 2-seater with pusher engine at the rear.
Asso XVIBTwin-Wankel engines driving a single propeller.
Asso XVIISide-by-side version of the X Jewel.
Asso XVIIBSide-by-side version of the X Jewel.