OSH 2010: More OMA SUD Red Bird details

Italian airframer Oma Sud has provided me with pictures, some artist concepts, some actual hardware, of their new Red Bird two-seater. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, the all-composite aircraft will fly for the first time late in August or early September. It will be a retractable design in Europe with side-by-side seating, powered by a 100hp Rotax 912 engine, and it will be a fixed gear light sport aircraft (LSA) in the US. Oma Sud officials say the aircraft will fly initially as an ultralight, and will then be certified in Europe as a very light aircraft by the end of 2011.