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Sonex SubSonex

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Kit built, single jet engine single seater, light aircraft. Includes 2 seater trainer, JSX-2T, and NASC Tracer UAS variants.

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Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Kit-built

Control

Piloted, Autonomous

Engine type

Turbojet

Application

Surveillance, Trainer, 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

Aluminium

Wing

Aluminium

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Autopilot

None

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Mid

Planform

Swept

Tail

V-tail

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Certification

Experimental-LSA

Minimum crew

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Notes
Sonex JSX-2 SubSonex	2009 / 2011	Single-seat variant, includes prototype: JSX-1.
Sonex JSX-2T SubSonex	2019 / 2019	Two-seat variant.
NASC Tracer	2022 / 2022	Jet UAV, uses Sonex Aerospace's SubSonex TwinJet UAS concept design as base.

Airframer

Sonex Aviation (was Sonex Aircraft, LLC)	News
NASC - Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation	News	NASC Tracer
Sonex Aerospace	News	Tracer UAS

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