General Aviation Design Bureau T-2 Maverick
The General Aviation Design Bureau T-2 Maverick is a Ukrainian ultralight trike, designed and produced by the General Aviation Design Bureau of Ukraine, based in Kiev. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Design and development
The T-2 was produced starting in 1995 as a trainer for western markets under subcontract, but is now sold under the General Aviation Design Bureau's own name.
The T-2 Maverick was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of depending on the version. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration open cockpit with two separate cockpit fairings, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft's structure is made from tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Powerplants available are the twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 503 engine, the liquid-cooled Rotax 582 engine or the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 912UL engine.
The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of depending on the version, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload is.
Two different wings have been supplied as standard, initially the Maverick 14.7 and, since 2000, the larger Maverick II with a wing area of.
