Synairgie Jet Ranger
The Synairgie Jet Ranger is a French homebuilt ultralight aircraft that was designed and produced by Synairgie of Montauban, introduced in the 1990s. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
Despite its name the aircraft is not powered by a turbine engine, but by a choice of piston two stroke and four stroke aircraft engines.Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of.
A development of the Synairgie Sky Ranger, the Jet Ranger features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed tricycle landing gearwith wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. The tubing used is all straight, to simplify fabrication and repairs. Its span wing, is supported by "V"-struts with jury struts, mounts flaps and has a wing area of. The cabin width is. The acceptable power range is and the standard engines used are the Rotax 503, Rotax 582 two-stroke powerplants or the Rotax 912UL four-stroke engine.
The Jet Ranger has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage is.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a engine is.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 100 hours.Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 15 kits had been sold and 12 aircraft were completed and flying.
