FK-12 Comet OK-LUA-42 - Accident Report published

The official report into the fatal accident of FK-12 Comet OK-LUA-42 has now been published. This aircraft crashed at Bydgoszcz Poland in August 2006.

The Polish language report suggests that the aircraft was overloaded by approx 58 Kg - the full report can be found via the link below

FK-12 Comet OK-LUA-42 Accident Report - Click through

Fatal accident - FK-12 Comet

I am sad to report a recent fatal accident involving a FK-12 Comet D-MOUT. The pilot and passenger were killed near Leuthau, Bavaria, Germany on 3rd May 2008.

More details can be found on the link below

http://www.tz-online.de/de/aktuelles/bayern/artikel_38210.html


My condolences to all concerned.

D-EZWO - a special FK-12 Comet

I'd like to thank Hans-Jurgen Hundhausen for providing some more information about the unique FK-12 Comet D-EZWO.

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.

The aircraft has flown approx 35 hours by May 2008.

So if you see this unique aircraft take a closer look as it an extra-ordinary FK-12 Comet !

FK-12 Comet - Thanks

I'd like to thank the following pilots, aircraft dealers and aviation historians & enthusiasts for supplying information and photos about the FK-12 Comet


Peter-Raimo Günther - Austria
Oliver Kugler - Austria
Klaus Pichler - Austria,
Luc Wittemans - Belgium Freddy Ceulemans - Belgium
Christian - France,
Oliver Riche - France
Jean-Marie Le Doux - France
Emmanuel Boulanger - France
Olivier Sam-Caw Freve - Reunion Island
Jean Hily - Reunion Island
Jorg Turner - Germany
Hans-Peter Horle - Germany
Hans-Jurgen Hundhausen - Germany
Johannes Seidl - Germany
Leo Kraus - Germany
Hubert Gebler - Germany

Urs Spuler - Switzerland
Ken Ede - UK
Ray Fitton - UK
Tony Morris - UK
Paul Carr - UK



Regards


Steven May
UK

FK-12 Comet Production

Welcome - This is a very simple Blog and will contain details of FK-12 Comet production. The FK-12 Comet is a very attractive ultralight sports biplane built by B&F at Speyer, Germany with component parts coming from Krosno, Poland.

The FK-12 Comet can be configured as either a two seater or a single seater with a choice of open air or enclosed canopies.

By the end of 2007 approx 80 examples had been built and examples can by found in many in many countries.

The information shown below has been gathered through my own research dealing with local civil aviation authorities, aviation publications and trawling the WWW for new info and contacts.

For each FK-12 Comet produced I am trying to tie up the construction number ( MSN or Werknummer ) with a specific aircraft registration - I have identified a number of FK-12 Comet registrations for which I do not yet have a confirmed construction number - if you can help resolve or correct any of the information shown here then please do get in touch.

Regards


Steven May
UK