Czech Aircraft Manufacturer's High-Wing Companion To The Sting S3

SportairUSA, LLC, the North American distributor for the Sting S3, announced Monday that the new TL-3000 Sirius LSA is now available for purchase in the U.S. Pilots and the public got their first look at the Sirius at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and Monday's announcement marks the completion of testing, tooling and LSA certification of the airplane.

“The Sirius is the perfect travel partner,” according to Bill Canino, President of SportairUSA. “It features ease of entry combined with yoke steering, a generous cockpit, a luggage compartment big enough for golf clubs, a useful load of 600 pounds, 30 gallons of fuel and outstanding flying characteristics.”

Sportair Sirius

The Sirius is the high-wing companion to the low-wing Sting. Both are certificated in the USA as special light sport aircraft and are manufactured by TL-Ultralight, s.r.o., in the Czech Republic. The Sirius, like the Sting, is a two place, carbon fiber composite, fixed-wing airplane powered by the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS engine and equipped with the industry’s fastest-opening GRS whole-plane ballistic parachute.

According to Canino, the manufacturer has designed and built a new sport airplane that combines the best features of traditional high-wing design with the proven performance, reliability and safety record of the Sting.

The maximum gross weight of the Sirius is 1,320 pounds (1,430 pounds in seaplane configuration). The cabin is 46 inches wide at the shoulders and the cargo area, more spacious than the trunk of a Honda Accord, holds 100 pounds of baggage. Standard equipment on the tricycle-geared airplane includes dual controls, toe-actuated disc brakes, adjustable rudder pedals, inertia-reel harnesses and a whole-plane GRS ballistic recovery parachute. Other features include easy entry/exit and a generous, fully upholstered cabin with plenty of legroom and headroom.

Sportair Sting

The Sirius comes fully equipped for cross-country flight and will comply with ASTM standards for instrument flight rules (IFR). The instrument panel accommodates either a traditional six-pack arrangement of flight instruments or any of a variety of primary and multipurpose flight displays – from Dynon, Garmin, Grand Rapids Technologies and TruTrak – along with a full complement of avionics.

FMI: www.sirius.aero