Kits from Savannah Africa
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An Easy to Build Plane. Why?

KIT #1

This kit contains all materials necessary to build the fuselage, the wings with flaperons and slats, the tail with rudder, elevator trim with servo and attached wiring harness, wing struts with drop shaped fairings already drilled for perfect adjustment, tricycle landing gear, wheel with separate pedal activated disc brakes, tyres, inner tubes, pedals, yoke, flaps lever, commands, cables with turnbuckles, guides and mounting brackets, all cables already cut to the right length and closed at the ends with thimbles and certified nicopress equipment.

All the parts are produced by serial production on CNC and laser-cutting machines to obtain a dramatic cut in the expenses and to get a final result of superior quality, with perfect interchangeability of the spare parts, with no need for further fittings.

Therefore, all the aluminum skins are cut to size, bent or pressed, drilled and ready to be riveted using the included rivets. To obtain a perfect result, even the rivet gun is included in the kit, together with some tack welds and their pliers. For a quick and perfect building it is suggested to use about 1500 tack welds (clecos) that could be bought separately. We can buy back these tack welds for the same price at the end of the work, or within 6 months.

The parts that need to be nailed (wing spars, some parts of the fuselage, etc.) are supplied ready-made in order to simplify the building.

Also included in the kit are:

• all AN screw bolts, with nuts and washers
• a roll of metal wire for lockings
• two wing tanks containing 36 litres (9 gal) each and a leading tank containing 6 litres
• (1,5 gal) with ball-cock reserve indicator, condensation decanter, fuel tap and tubings down to the firewall
• four point safety belts
• double throttle
• plastic tips for wings, ailerons, slats and tail
• templates for adjusting ailerons, tail etc.

To complete the airplane you would need:

engine mount / engine cowlings / engine / propeller / water and oil radiators, tubes, hoses, fittings, straps, seat padding / instruments / electrical wiring / paint / cockpit upholstery.

ESTIMATED BUILDING TIME (without painting and upholstery work) 100 hours + engine & implants installation

KIT #2 Top

As for KIT #1, plus:

• Rotax 912 engine mount with silent-blocks and connections
• engine cowlings
• water radiator, oil radiator, hoses with steel spiral core, steel reinforced oil tubes, NORMA and ABA clamps
• cockpit heating system
• complete fuel tubing beyond the firewall, with electric pump, filter, distributor with attachments for the fuel pressure gauge and fuel recycle pipe to the tanks to prevent "vapour-lock", rubber stratified fuel hoses, NBR + CR with NORMA clamps
• navigation and engine instruments: air speed indicator 80 mm (3 +1/4 in), three-pointer altimeter 80 mm (3 +1/4 in), vertical speed indicator 80 mm (3 +1/4 in), tachometer for Rotax 912 80 mm (3 +1/4 in), slip/skid indicator, compass, voltmeter, oil pressure, oil temperature, cylinder head temperature left and right, hourmeter, inside cowling temperature indicator, fuel pressure guage
• complete electrical wiring harness with dry battery, keyed master, two thermal breakers, switches for all electrical applications, battery charge light, fuel reserve light with test button, cabin light, elevator trim servo
• double padded high-back seats

To complete the airplane you would need:

Rotax 912 engine with oil tank, current rectifier, exhaust and propeller

ESTIMATED BUILDING TIME (without painting and upholstery work) 250 hours

KIT #3 Top

As for KIT #2, plus Rotax 912 engine, voltage regulator, oil tank, exhaust with stainless steel silencer, propeller and spinner.

ESTIMATED BUILDING TIME (without painting and upholstery work) 250 hours

Other accessories are optional. See price list

An Easy to Build Plane, Here's why...

The Savannah is an easy plane to build, and probably takes no more than 300 hours. The secret is the high degree of automation and computer-controlled drills and presses at the Italian factory.

There are plenty of rivets to fit, so the kit comes with an air-rivet gun and Clicos, but every hole is not only accurately predrilled, but also deburred, so the work is fast and enjoyable. The holes etc are not drilled, but are made by a high pressure water blast on a CNC machine.

The build manual is unusually clear and comprehensive and even contains excellent tutorials on the techniques required. Anyone with normal DIY skills could tackle it confidently.

It is all clean and straightforward work with no worries about mixing resins and getting cure temperatures right. Each part fits perfectly and you never have to bend metal or use a file. You don’t even need much space, until the final assembly, because each component is small enough to be built in a single garage – and light enough not to need much help from your partner in moving things around.

So put away those doubts. You really could build your own plane and enjoy the extraordinary satisfaction of touring those unspoilt beauty spots you’ve always fancied.

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