Criquet Storch

The Criquet Storch (English: Stork) is a Colombian light-sport aircraft that was designed and produced by Criquet Aviation of Guaymaral Airport, Bogotá. The aircraft is a 75% scale replica of the German Second World War STOL liaison aircraft, the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, with the company named for the French post-war production model of the same aircraft, the Morane-Saulnier MS.505 Criquet.^[1]^[2]

Design and development

The aircraft was adapted from the original German plans to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.^[1]^[2]

The aircraft's 10.5 m (34.4 ft) span wing has an area of 16 m² (170 sq ft) and is equipped with flaps and leading edge slots. Standard engines that were available include the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS, 115 hp (86 kW) turbocharged Rotax 914, 110 hp (82 kW) Rotec R2800, 150 hp (112 kW) Rotec R3600 radial engine and the 108 hp (81 kW) Lycoming O-235 four-stroke powerplants.^[1]^[2]

The design is an accepted Federal Aviation Administration Special Light-sport Aircraft.^[3]

Data from Bayerl^[1]

General characteristics

Crew: one
Capacity: one passenger
Wingspan: 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
Wing area: 16 m² (170 sq ft)
Empty weight: 385 kg (849 lb)
Gross weight: 625 kg (1,378 lb)
Fuel capacity: 110 litres (24 imp gal; 29 US gal)
Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 912ULS four cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke aircraft engine, 75 kW (101 hp)

Performance

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 38. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
^ ^a ^b ^c Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 41. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
^ Federal Aviation Administration (26 September 2016). "SLSA Make/Model Directory". Retrieved 5 February 2017.