Solo Wings

Solo Wings CC
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAerospace
Foundedmid-1980s
Defunctcirca 2012
Headquarters
Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal
,
South Africa
ProductsUltralight trikes
Websitewww.solowings.co.za

Solo Wings CC was a South African aircraft manufacturer based in Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.[1][2][3][4]

The company seems to have gone out of business circa 2012 and production of its Solo Wings Aquilla design taken over by Microcrafts Africa.[5]

The company produced two ultralight trike designs, starting with the entry-level Windlass, powered by the Rotax 503 50 hp (37 kW) twin cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled aircraft engine in about 1987. More than 600 of this model had been delivered by 2001. In the 1990s the more sophisticated Aquilla was introduced.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ a b Cliche, Andre: Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide 8th Edition, page C-30. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9680628-1-4
  2. ^ a b Downey, Julia: 2000 Trike and 'Chute Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 17, Number 2, February 2000, page 45. Kitplanes Acquisition Company. ISSN 0891-1851
  3. ^ a b Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 110. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  4. ^ a b Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 222. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
  5. ^ Microcrafts Africa CC (2013). "Microcrafts". Retrieved 12 February 2015.