AutoGyro MT-03


The AutoGyro MT-03 is a German autogyro, designed and produced by AutoGyro GmbH of Hildesheim. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
The MT-03 was approved in the United Kingdom in 2007 in a modified form as the RotorSport UK MT-03.

Design and development

The MT-03 features a single main rotor, a two-seats in tandem open cockpit with an optional partial cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 912 engine or turbocharged Rotax 914 engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft fairing is made from composites. Its diameter rotor has a chord of. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of.
The MT-03 was developed into the MTOsport and the fully enclosed AutoGyro Calidus.

Operational history

The MT-03 was flown on a world record-setting distance flight in Australia of.
An AutoGyro MT-03 was used by Norman Surplus in his nine-year global circumnavigation that ended in 2019; the first to be done in an autogyro.

Variants

;AutoGyro MT-03
;RotorSport UK MT-03
;AutoGyro MTOsport
;AutoGyro MT0-Free

Operators

Military