Laron Wizard
The Laron Wizard is an American homebuilt aircraft produced by Laron Aviation Tech of Borger, Texas. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Design and development
The Wizard features a strut-braced high-wing, a twin-boom tail layout, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear, with a tail skid, and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from a combination of bolted-together aluminum tubing and fiberglass, with its flying surfaces covered doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of. The wing is supported by a single lift strut and jury strut per side. The acceptable power range is and the standard engines used are the Rotax 582, the Rotax 618 or the Hirth 2706 two stroke powerplants or the Rotax 912UL four stroke engine.
With the Rotax 582 engine the Wizard has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage is.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 450 hours.Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 240 kits had been sold and 220 aircraft were completed and flying.
