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Top speed
  
340 km/h

Length
  
6.56 m

Wingspan
  
8.06 m

The Swift Aircraft Swift is a single engine, conventional light aircraft, seating two in side-by-side configuration. It is being developed in the UK but has yet to fly.

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Design and development

The Swift is mostly built from composite materials; flying surfaces and the fuselage are formed from composite sandwiches and the wing and tailplane have carbon fibre spars. It has a low wing of trapezoidal plan with slightly upturned tips, fitted with Frise ailerons and slotted flaps. The rear surfaces are also trapezoidal. There is a trim tab in the elevator and a ground adjustable tab on the rudder.

The cockpit has a fixed windscreen and rearward-sliding canopy and is equipped with dual controls. There is a baggage space behind the side-by-side seats. The Swift has a fixed, tricycle undercarriage with the mainwheels on fuselage mounted, spring steel, cantilever legs. The mainwheels have disc brakes and the nosewheel is steerable. The Swift is designed to accept a range of Textron Lycoming horizontally opposed engines in the power range 119-194 kW (160-260 hp), driving a three-bladed propeller.

The Swift program was announced in May 2009. In 2015 Swift Technology Group announced a "multi million pound investment" supporting development of the aircraft and other products, and exhibited a static display at AeroExpo UK.

Variants

Swift II
Intended to be type certified to EASA CS-23
Swift VLA
Intended to be certified to EASA CS-VLA in kit and factory-complete flyaway versions

Specifications (Swift II)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2011/12 Performance estimated.

General characteristics

  • Capacity: 2
  • Length: 6.565 m (21 ft 6 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.055 m (26 ft 5 in) including winglets
  • Height: 2.015 m (6 ft 7 in)
  • Empty weight: 372 kg (820 lb)
  • Max takeoff weight: 743 kg (1,638 lb)
  • Fuel capacity: 187 L (49.4 US gal; 41.1 Imp gal)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Textron Lycoming air-cooled flat-six engine, 194 kW (260 hp)
  • Propellers: 3-bladed MT-Propeller, constant speed

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 340 km/h (211 mph; 184 kn)
  • Cruise speed: 302 km/h (188 mph; 163 kn) at 75% power
  • Stall speed: 93 km/h (58 mph; 50 kn) flaps down
  • g limits: +6/-4
  • Rate of climb: 10.7 m/s (2,110 ft/min) maximum, at sea level

    • Avionics

  • EFIS.
  • Bendix/King IFR.

    • References

    Swift Aircraft Swift Wikipedia
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