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The Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300 is a low-wing, side-by-side two-seater, ultralight and light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Alpi Aviation Srl, Pordenone, Italy.
The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction. The roots of the Pioneer 300 are in the Asso 5 designed by the Italian designer Guiseppe Vidor. The
Pioneer 300 was designed to comply with the FAI microlight rules, as well as the US light-sport aircraft rules. Like Vidor's Asso, the Pioneer 300 has a wooden
fuselage frame but it is covered with composite skin panels instead with fabric. The Pioneer features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration
enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, a choice of fixed or retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The fixed landing gear
version is intended for the US light-sport aircraft category that does not permit retractable gear on landplanes. Its 8.10 m span wing is tapered in planform.
Engine options include next to the Rotax models as given by the variants, the 80 hp Jabiru 2200; 120 hp Jabiru 3300 and the 110 hp Midwest wankel. The basic Pioneer
300 Model is known as the 300 STD.Variants
- Pioneer 200 — the simplest and the less expensive aircraft in the entire Alpi range; it has an all-wooden structure with rectangular fitting surfaces. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
- Pioneer 200 Sauer — the cheaper Pioneer's family version equipped with the 65hp Sauer engine, a Volkswagen derived engine.
- Pioneer 230 — has an all wooden structure that is carbon-fibre covered on the upper fuselage portion. The lifting surfaces are rectangular. There is a European UL and an American LSA versions with different MTOWs. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
- Pioneer 300 STD — Base model, standard engine is the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
- Pioneer 300 S — the S version of the 300 STD with a shorter wing span, retractable landing gear, standard engine is the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
- Pioneer 300 Griffon — equipped with retractable landing gear and intended for the new 600 kg MTOW class in Europe, standard engine is the 141 hp Rotax 915iS.
- Pioneer 300 Hawk — Model with fully ply-covered wings, an updated design of the P300 noseleg, undercarriage doors and an increased gross weight of sub 600kg. Engine options: Rotax 912ULS, 912iS.
- Pioneer 300 Kite — a Model with fixed gear: there are European UL and American LSA versions with different MTOWs. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
- Pioneer 300 Turbo — Model with luxury interior, carbon fibre instrument panel and an 115hp Rotax 914 turbocharged engine giving a cruise speed of 265 km/h.
- Pioneer 330 Acro — Aerobatic model, with inverted-capable version of the 100 hp Rotax 912ULS and a strengthened airframe with flight load factors of +6/-3g. Engine options: Rotax 912, 912ULS, 912iS Sport.
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