This blog relates to the B&F FK-12 Comet biplane aircraft - I am endeavouring to identify every example built and present my own Funk FK-12 Comet airplane production list.
Additions, amendments, corrections and comments welcomed - there are still several aircraft for which I have no information - can you help?
Approx 115 aircraft have been built by Spring 2019.
Thank You - please contact me via,
bea_steve"at"hotmail.com
FK-12 Comet D-MYVO c/n 17 is based in Italy and flies from the airfield at Fano - LIDF ( between Rimini and Ancona, on the Adriatic coast ). The photo above shows this Comet with the name and artwork "Big Beautiful Doll" - lovely.
With thanks to Luigi Grasselli of Aviema for supplying the above information and photos.
This Comet is c/n 37 and was built from a kit - it first flew in December 2006 at Mainz-Finthen in Germany.
This aircraft is powered by a Wankel rotary fuel injected fully aerobatic engine rather than the usual Rotax 912. In addition the aircraft has a Silence Aircraft 2 bladed automatic variable pitch propeller.
D-EZWO has been designed to operate with a MTOW of 520 Kg allowing full two seat operations with a full fuel load - because of this the aircraft could not be registered in the German microlight registration sequence of "D-M......" ( MTOW 450 Kg ) - the aircraft is as far as I know the one and only "D-E....." registerd FK-12 Comet.
I'd like to thank Hans-Jurgen Hundhausen for his help with information about the unique special FK-12 Comet D-EZWO.