TechProAviation Merlin 100


The TechProAviation Merlin HV 100 is a Czech amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by TechProAviation of Olomouc. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development

The Merlin 100 features a cantilever high-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit accessed via a single door on the fuselage righthand side, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from matched-hole drilled sheet aluminum. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The standard engine used is the Verner JCV 360 twin cylinder four-stroke powerplant. Alternative engines include the HKS 700E four-stroke, Hirth F-23 and Rotax 582 two-stroke powerplants. The aircraft will be marketed as a kit only.
By mid-2011 only the prototype had flown, logging 100 hours of testing, These tests led to modifications; by November 2012 the prototype had gained a fin fillet and the mainwheel legs were slightly forward raked.

Operational history

By 2013 ten Merlins had been built. Flyaway prices, without tax, are engine dependent; the cheapest is the Verner-engined variant at €15,500 in 2015.

Variants

These are in production in late 2015:
;Merlin 100 UL
;Merlin 100 ML
;Merlin Mikro
;Rotax

Specifications (Merlin 100 UL)