10,900Was 11,500 new aircraft now arrived

Located at Popham in Hampshire

RANS S6-ESD for sale with new permit and virtually new rotax 582 engine
* GA-Plugs 2-place intercom
* 85 Litre fuel tanks (about 5 hours endurance)
* New Rotax 582 engine fitted by Rotax IRMT service centre mid 2022 now with c.80 hours (increasing slightly with use), 2022 model blue top oil injection.
* Interior cabin liner
* Fabric baggage compartment
* Strobes (new head unit)
* Re-wired with modern fuse system, battery and starter motor recently replaced
* Skins regularly tested without problem and aircraft kept in hangar
* 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
* Airframe hours 1040 since build in 1995 (increasing slightly)

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

This is an absolute bargain at the price considering she has a virtually new engine (Cost 8,300 incl. fitting, gearbox and carb service new fuel pump, new floats, new hoses) and the fact that you can't get such a well maintained go-places aircraft with room for your tent and camp bed anywhere near this price.

She passed her permit inspection with no problem and the maintenance plan/schedule is available for you so you are in step with the latest LAA requirements.

She comes with
* 833 Yaesu FTA radio with power and antenna connector
* Kanardia Horis EFIS
* Garmin GTX320 Transponder.

and
* Disc-brake kit (never fitted, boxed)
* Spats
For which I have had separate enquiries since posting this advert.

Text on 074545 63864 for more information

Answers to questions from prospective buyers :
1. The permit test flight was fine and showed increased performance over last year's with the new engine.
2. She has 2 separate sticks
3. The engine is automatic oil injection, about 80 hours, pristine condition with no issues and there is 2-litre oil tank which is enough for 100 litres of fuel at 50/1 mix
4. MTOW is 450 - Empty weight is 257 weighed in 2020
5. 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.
6. I maintain her to a high standard and I have no problem with any inspection.
7. The wing skins(sails) are fine. I use NikWax, 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. .
8. She has strobes at the base of the tail fin and underneath the fuselage so she is visible from above and below. The strobe head was replaced when I bought her 2 years ago.
9. 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.
10. The 582 engine was replaced with a new rotax-supplied 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
11. 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.
12. 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 use brakes mostly for tight turning when taxi or on a down-slope and the current pads are quite sufficient. I have learned to control my speeds on approach better and can land with a feather touch at about 40MPH.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Take off roll depends on weight. I can operate her comfortably using 400 Metre strips.
16. Climb, glide and descent speeds are all suggested to be 65-70MHP. I have found she stalls around 48MPH without flap and 38MPH with full flap, with a gentle mushing stall.
17. At her permit flight test she climbs 1,000 feet in 90 seconds.

As you may know these aircraft go on forever as they are modular with a UK dealer representative giving great support, owners love the visibility you get from the large Perspex doors and overhead clear cockpit enhancing safety.
I have just renewed the insurance which was 630 for the year with Traffords.

Please give me a text is you wish to know more. I have given a number of prospective buyers test flights however the prospective buyers all seem to either have to sell their own aircraft first, or they live abroad, or they don't have hangarage etc, which is why she remains available.