Robin DR100

The Robin DR100 is a family of French light aircraft that first flew in 1958 and descends from the Jodel line. It is of wooden construction, with a tailwheel undercarriage, 2+2 seating and the distinctive marked outboard dihedral that its wings share with Jodel designs. It began as the amateur-built Jodel-Robin, essentially a larger three-seat Bébé Jodel with the fuselage of a D11 and the wings of Jean Délémontez's D10 project, and a DR100 prototype was then built at Dijon-Darois in 1959. Production followed with the DR100A and the DR105A with air brakes, and the later 1050 Ambassadeur cruised at 200 km/h on 19 litres of fuel an hour. Centre-Est Aéronautique built 331 of the 790 made and Société Aéronautique Normande built 459, with more built by amateurs. Good results in the Sicily and Paris-Cannes air races of the early 1960s led to the Sicile and Sicile-Record versions.