Whittaker MW5 Sorcerer


The Whittaker MW5 Sorcerer is a British amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Mike Whittaker in the mid-1980s and supplied as plans for amateur construction.

Design and development

The aircraft features a strut-braced parasol wing, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration, mounted on the keel tube, above the cockpit.
The aircraft is made from aluminium tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has an area of. The standard engine used is the Rotax 447 two-stroke powerplant.
The design is approved by the Light Aircraft Association in the UK.

Variants

;MW5A
;MW5D
;MW5K
;MW7

Specifications (MW5A Sorcerer)