The Aero-Service Puma is a Polish ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aero-Service Jacek Skopiński of Warsaw. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015–16, page 20. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. Jackson, Paul (ed): Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2012–2013, pages 500–501. Jane's Information Group, 2012. Jackson, Paul (ed): IHS-Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2013–2014, Development and Production, pages 502–504. Jane's Information Group, 2013. Jackson, Paul (ed): IHS-Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2014-2015, Development and Production, pages 520–521. Jane's Information Group, 2014.
Design and development The Puma was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with an aluminum sheet wing. Its span wing employs a NACA 4415 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 4412 at the wing tip. The wing has an area of and mounts flaps. Standard engines available are the Rotax 912UL, the Rotax 912ULS and the Rotax 914 four-stroke powerplants. The cabin width is .
The Puma was designed in 2008, with a prototype under construction in September 2011. No first flight of the design has been confirmed.
A fixed gear version, to be called the Raptor, was under preliminary development in 2010.
Specifications (Puma)
See also Aero-Service Panda
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