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thumb|Best Off Aviation Skyranger being tied down at [[Sun 'n Fun 2006]]

thumb|Skyranger cockpit with optional extended panel

The Best Off Skyranger (also Sky Ranger, SkyRanger) is a French-designed two-seat ultralight utility aircraft, produced by Best Off, of Toulouse. It is a high-wing conventional monoplane with tricycle undercarriage, and of fabric-covered tubular construction.

The Skyranger is also manufactured under licence by Aero Bravo in Brazil, SkyRanger Aircraft in the United States (as a kit), Aeros in Ukraine and at least 150 were built by Synairgie in France, too. Because of the aircraft being manufactured by many companies, names such as Aeros Skyranger, Synairgie Skyranger etc. are used for the aircraft.

Some 900 are flying throughout the world.

;Skyranger Vmax

:Improved model for United Kingdom BCAR Section "S" certification, with ventral fin. Standard engines available are the Rotax 582 two-stroke, the Rotax 912UL, the Rotax 912ULS, Jabiru 2200, the VW and the HKS 700E four-stroke powerplants.

;Reusable Bomber Drones

:On 26 April 2024, 6 photos surfaced online, taken somewhere in Russia, which appeared to show a crashed Skyranger Swift 2 fitted with a single OFAB-100-120 bomb. Along with other equipment to allow for it to become a “remotely piloted bomber”. Skyranger had been contacted and said it could be an existing aircraft or one built from a kit worth $55,000.00. Ukraine has previously modified a Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat into a kamikaze drone.

Specifications (Skyranger)

See also

Comparable aircraft

  • Ikarus C42
  • Raj Hamsa X-Air "H" Hanuman

Notes

References

  • Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 2003. .
  • Official website