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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 Kyiv. 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 .

Specifications (T-2 with Maverick II wing)

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