Quicksilver Aeronautics Sport 2S
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The Quicksilver Sport 2S is the strut-braced, double-surface-wing two-seater of the Quicksilver ultralight line, the Sport II updated with a wider tailboom, a bigger propeller, a higher gross weight and a 64 hp Rotax 582 as standard; the Sport 2SE of 2014 is the same aircraft built as an S-LSA for training.
A Sport 2S is open-air flying at 50 knots behind a two-stroke, sold as a trainer and bought for the sensation rather than for going anywhere; the aluminium tube and Dacron sail structure is simple to inspect and cheap to repair but has a finite life in sunlight, so the age and condition of the sails and the hours and maintenance of the 582 are what the price should turn on. No manufacturer weights or performance figures could be sourced in this research, so the aircraft's own paperwork is the only numbers to rely on. A kit-built Sport 2S is amateur-built, maintained by its owner with an A&P or repairman doing the condition inspection; a factory Sport 2SE is an S-LSA under the manufacturer's maintenance rules. Quicksilver and Air-Tech still supply parts.
Variants of the Quicksilver Sport 2S
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Rotax 582 (64 hp standard; Rotax 503 50 hp in the Sport II) |
| Horsepower | 64 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | — |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | — |
|---|---|
| Range | — |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | — |
| Stall speed (Vso) | — |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | — |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | — |
| Empty weight | — |
| Usable fuel | — |
| 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 | 172 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 104 |
| Median year built | 2007 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 6 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 2 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 57.691 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 48.082 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 23 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 22.123 |
| Airworthiness directives | 0 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 104 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 104 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 104 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 3 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)1 |
| Severity | 2.2 of 10 · scored on 21 years of events (fewer than 10 in the last 10)2 |
| Access | 5.5 of 103 |
| Support | 6 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 6.2 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 22.9 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