11,500Much beloved RANS S6-ESD for sale with
* 833 portable radio with power and antenna connector
* GA-Plugs 2-place intercom
* Garmin GTX320 Transponder
* Kanardia Horis EFIS
* 88 Litre fuel tanks (about 5 hours endurance)
* New Rotax 582 engine fitted by Rotax IRMT service centre mid 2022 now with c.70 hours, 2022 model blue top oil injection.
* Interior cabin
* Baggage compartment
* Strobes (new head unit)
* Re-wired with modern fuse system
* Skins regularly tested without problem and aircraft kept in hangar
* Amateur-made outdoor covers if you should need them
* Disc-brake kit (never fitted, boxed)
* Including Spats and spare inner tube
* Recently increased flap limiting speed now 80MPH to improve safety
* Approved for E5 mogas

Come and have a look she will be at the Popham Microlight event this weekend.

I have travelled from Jersey in the south to Edinburgh and across to Wales and even to France in this reliable and easy to fly LAA microlight.

The price of 11,500 (negotiable) reflects the electronics and the new engine and the fact that you can't get such a well maintained go-places aircraft with room for your tent anywhere near this price.

She will come with a current permit and a new inspection is booked already so you will have a year's permit on her soon.

Text on 074545 63864 for more information

Answers to questions from prospective buyers :
1. The engine is automatic oil injection, about 70 hours, pristine condition with no issues
2. MTOW is 450
3. She is LAA and has an excellent inspector near Swindon with an airstrip and by negotiation you could fly in and keep the same inspector who is a bit-of-a-legend and well known as exacting and pragmatic. I have not had any issues with bureaucracy, the LAA system is excellent. Most owner maintenance is carried out with a note in the logbook, for anything more substantial my inspector answers mails and calls quickly and helpfully and is very supportive, I have only had to call on him for a mid-year inspection once and that was when the whole engine was replaced.
4. I maintain her to a high standard. Just last week she had some minor work done by an LAA maintainer and I have no problem with any inspection.
5. The wing skins(sails) are fine. I keep her hangered and so did the previous owners. You can quickly tell if the skins are old or the aircraft has been left outside because the skins fade at the top and these are fine. Of course they are betts tested at every inspection and there have been no issue or advisories. I wash her with NikWax protector.
6. She has strobes at the base of the tail fin and underneath so she is visible from above and below. The strobe 'head' was replaced when I bought her 2 years ago.
7. I have not used Wing Fold and I have not been advised that the aircraft has wing fold. That said I believe the wings can be folded reasonably easily for storage but I have never attempted it.
8. The 582 engine was replaced with a new rotax-supplier unit last year by a rotax service centre. The previous engine (A rotax 582 blue top) had done 20 years and over 750 hours without incident before I replaced it with a like-for-like but brand new engine at a cost of nearly 7,000. I replaced the engine because I was expecting to keep the aircraft for 10 years but my circumstances have changed. The rotax 582 is highly reliable when maintained properly and gives incredible power/weight ratio and I would not have installed it unless I believed in it
9. The panel is the common RANS S6 straight-across rectangular strip. She has Fuel Pressure, EGT, CHT, ASI, a Kanardia Horis EFIS, two-place-ga-intercom, a comprehensive fuse board, an hours meter, a mounting bracket for the .833 radio, a Flap-down indicator light, a master-switch-on indicator light, a primer (no choke), the mag switches and push button starter. Her throttles are the standard RANS ones on the floor beside your seat, the left seat has control stick with Radio PTT, rudder pedals and toe brakes, the right seat has the stick and rudder pedals. The seats are adjustable on the ground with locking pins.
10. In common with many Rans S6 types the brakes are not brilliant. I bought a disc brake kit (which I never fitted but will pass on with the aircraft) however I learned that stamping on the brakes isn't the answer to most situations, I rarely use any brakes today (mostly for tight turning when taxi or on a down-slope) and these are quite sufficient. I have learned to control my speeds on approach better and can land with a feather touch at about 40MPH.
11. The aircraft has two wing tanks and two wing fillers which are linked by a cross feed system so can be considered as one fuel source. The cross feed can be shut off when filling the tanks so you don't have fuel passing to the left tank when you are filling the right as you would be running back and forth to fill her tanks otherwise. You can see the fuel situation with sight-tubes in the wing root easily visible from the cockpit. Like most microlights there are no fuel gauges.
12. The aircraft also has a fuselage tank behind the pilot (a bit like a C42). There is a fuel cox behind and between the seats with positions 'wing' 'main' and 'off'. Best practice is to use the fuselage tank first. The wing tanks hold about 50L and the Main tank about 38L. Depending on throttle setting she burns about 15L per hour at about 75-80MPH (less if you throttle back and more if you throttle up). The way I fly I get 5 hours of flight time between each full refill.
12a. Take off roll depends on weight. I can operate her comfortably using 400 Metre strips.
14. Climb, glide and descent speeds are all suggested to be 65-70MHP. I have found she stalls around 50MPH without flap and 39MPH with full flap.