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Europa XS

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Kitbuilt two-seat light plane/motor glider, includes Europa XS Trigear (tricycle landing gear), Europa XS Monowheel (single retractable wheel), and Europa XS Long Wing (motor gliding variant).

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Kit-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Piston, Diesel

Application

Ultralight

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Wing

Composite

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Avionics architecture

Standalone glass

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Mid

Planform

Straight

Tail

Conventional

continued

Certification

Experimental-LSA

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Composite wing (primary structure) Primary Composite fuselage (primary structure) Primary

Technical reference compiled with AI research; a value appears only where two independent research passes and a web fact-check agree. Gaps are deliberate.

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
Europa XS	1999 / 1992		Two-seat composite low-wing monoplane.

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