Sea and Sky Cygnet


The Sea and Sky Cygnet is an American amphibious ultralight trike that was designed by J.P. Krucker and initially produced by his company Krucker Manufacturing in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and later by Sea and Sky of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development

The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category and the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, retractable wheeled tricycle landing gear and dual floats and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its span wing is supported by struts and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The standard powerplants are the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 582 engine, the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 912UL and the Rotax 912ULS engines. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload is.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the North Wings Pulse and sizes. The LSA-approved wings are the North Wing Mustang 3 in, and and the Keitek Hazard.

Operational history

The Cygnet was awarded Best Trike at Sun 'n Fun in 2005.

Variants

;Cygnet
;Cygnet 2

Specifications (Cygnet 2 with North Wings Pulse 17 wing)