DTA Alizés


The DTA Alizés is a French ultralight trike that was designed by Michel Guaiguant and is produced by DTA sarl of Montélimar.
The aircraft is a joint venture with wing manufacturer La société Ellipse who market it as the Ellipse Alizé. It is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development

The Alizés was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of. The aircraft also fits the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.
The Alizés features a cable-braced Ellipse Fuji hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit with no cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The Alizés is a very simple nanotrike and is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, Zenoah G25 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload is.
Due to its single seat configuration and "niche appeal", the aircraft has not sold in large numbers.

Variants

;Ellipse Alizé
;Ellipse Fuji 16 Alizé
;Ellipse Titan CX Alizé

Specifications (Alizés)