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DarkAero 1

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Two-seat kit aircraft engineered for high-speed, long range flight.

Lift type
Fixed wing
Construction
Kit-built
Control
Piloted
Engine type
Piston
Application
Experimental, Passenger small

Design & construction

Primary structure
Composite
Wing
Composite
Landing gear
Retractable tricycle
Ice protection
None
Pressurisation
Unpressurised
Flight controls
Mechanical
Autopilot
3-axis
Avionics architecture
Standalone glass
Environmental control
None-unpressurised
Wing position
Low
Planform
Straight
Tail
Conventional
Minimum crew
1
Composite wing (primary structure) Primary Composite fuselage (primary structure) Primary

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Type variants

VariantLaunch / first flightProduction endNotes
DarkAero DarkAero 1 / 2022Two-seat kit-built aircraft.

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DarkAero, IncNews

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