Kitfox Series 7 Super Sport
These figures describe a typical build. Each aircraft of this design was built by its owner, and the one you are looking at may differ.
The Series 7 Super Sport is the current Kitfox: a two-seat side-by-side high-wing with folding wings, convertible tailwheel or tricycle gear, a 43-inch cabin and a 31 ft wing, built as a kit at 1,550 lb gross or by the factory as an S-LSA at 1,320 lb. With a 100 hp Rotax 912 ULS Kitfox quotes 123 mph cruise, a 42 mph flapped stall, 290 ft ground rolls and 1,000 fpm, with 800 lb useful at the experimental weight.
Among the Rotax STOL two-seaters this is the one with a Part 23-style paper trail - Kitfox keeps the tooling and build standards that let it certify the S-LSA - and the market prices it accordingly, with new factory aircraft well into six figures. The same airframe appears on the register as an amateur-built with anything from an 80 hp 912 UL to a turbo 915 iS, on tundra tyres or floats, with empty weights that wander with the options, so the aircraft's own weight-and-balance and documents govern; a factory S-LSA is maintained under LSA rules and must stay at 1,320 lb. The folding wings make hangar sharing and trailering real options. Tailwheel insurance and a transition apply to most of the fleet. No used asking price was established from the marketplaces read.
Variants of the Kitfox
- Kitfox Model I · 1984 · 34 active
- Kitfox Model II · 1989 · 82 active
- Kitfox Model IV (4-1200 / Classic IV figures) · 1991 · 370 active
- Kitfox Series 5 · 1994 · 111 active
- Kitfox Series 6 · 2000 · 21 active
- Kitfox Light Sport · 2004 · 30 active
- Kitfox Series 7 Super Sport · 2004 · 236 active · this page
- Kitfox Model III · 115 active
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tailwheel |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Rotax 912 ULS / 912 iS / 915 iS (80-141 hp) |
| Horsepower | 100 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 2004 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 107 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | — |
| Service ceiling | 15,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,000 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 36 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 800 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,550 lb |
| Empty weight | 750 lb |
| Usable fuel | 27 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | — |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | — |
|---|---|
| Price, high | — |
| Prices as of | — |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | — |
| Overhaul cost, high | — |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 262 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 236 |
| Median year built | 2018 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 24 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 1 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 101.691 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 101.692 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 28 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 11.863 |
| Airworthiness directives | 2 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 236 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 236 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 236 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 0.4 of 101 |
| Severity | 6.8 of 102 |
| Access | 5.3 of 103 |
| Support | 8.3 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 1.5 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 22.3 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 36.69 · 321 models in class.
- Severity: class median 13.04.
- Access: class median 1,000.
- Support: class median 77.5.
- Liquidity: class median 20.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 7 · scores Sep 30