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Fly Italia MD3 Rider

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High wing single piston ultralight with all metal semi-monocoque airframe and welded steel tube fuselage. Formerly Next Aircraft Rider MD-3, SD Aviation acquired rights in 2024.

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Piston

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

Landing gear

Fixed tricycle

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Autopilot

None

Avionics architecture

Analogue

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Low

Planform

Straight

Tail

Conventional

continued

Certification

Part 23

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
Fly Italia MD3 Rider	2006 / 2004		Two-seat lightplane and side by side ultralight with welded frame and composite shell.

Airframer

SD Aviation Srl

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