SITAR GY-110 Sher Khan

GY-110 Sher Khan
Role civil utility aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer SITAR
Designer Yves Gardan





The SITAR GY-110 Sher Khan[1] was a light aircraft designed in France in the late 1960s as a larger and more powerful version of designer Yves Gardan's Bagheera.[2][3][4] Like the Bagheera, it was to be a conventional low-wing, cantilever monoplane with a fully enclosed cabin.[2][3] However, although the Bagheera had seating for up to four people in 2+2 configuration,[2] the Sher Khan was to have a stretched fuselage[2] with full seating for four people.[2][3][4] The wingspan was also to be enlarged,[2] and unlike the Bagheera, whose tricycle undercarriage was fixed, the Sher Khan's was to be retractable.[2][4]

Power was to be supplied by engines in the 150-kW to 240-kW (200-hp to 300-hp) range.[4]


Specifications (as designed)

Data from Taylor 1971, p.78

General characteristics


Notes

  1. SITAR marketed three designs: the Bagheera, the Mowgli, and the Sher Khan. The GY-100 Bagheera was named after Bagheera, a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2857). Mowgli and Sher Khan are characters in the same book.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Taylor 1971, p.78
  3. 1 2 3 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2857
  4. 1 2 3 4 Taylor 1989, p.825

References

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