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News of April 06, 2005

Robin Aircraft is selling the DR400 with Thielert diesel

Kees de Bussy invites us to look at Robin Aircraft's website : www.apex-aircraft.com.
The information on this site is limited, but it gives nevertheless a pretty good idea of the plane and its performances. The first flight of the Robin Dauphin diesel took place in 2003 and production planes are delivered since the end of 2004. Robin is an old French manufacturer which used to be known as Jodel, a pioneer of small home-made singles (the very first one in the late 40's was a single seater with a 32HP VW engine!) which later became famous with a line of 2 and 4 seater taildraggers. A series of mergers and restructuring ended with the merger of Robin and CAP into Apex Aircraft and production of both lines of aircraft is concentrated in Darois, France (previous Robin plant) except for the 2120/2160 trainers which are now assembled in New Zealand by Izard Pacific Aviation under the brandname Alpha. Furthermore Kees heard from the Robin dealer in Germany that they are working on a 2160 with the Thielert engine as well.

posted at 9:40 PM

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