Sukhoi Su-26

The Sukhoi Su-26 is a single-seat aerobatic aircraft from the former Soviet Union, powered by a single radial piston engine. It has mid-mounted straight wings and fixed landing gear, with the main legs mounted on a solid titanium arc. The type made its first flight in June 1984 with a two-bladed propeller, and production then switched to the Su-26M, with refined tail surfaces and a German-made three-blade composite propeller. It won both the men's and women's team prizes at the 1986 World Aerobatics Championships, and the Su-26M3 with a new 320 kilowatt M9F engine dominated the 2003 and 2005 world championships and the 2004 European championships. Its instruments are fully metric apart from the altimeter.