Avions Fairey Belfair

The Avions Fairey Belfair, also called the Tipsy Belfair after its designer Ernest Oscar Tips, was a two-seat light aircraft built in Belgium after the Second World War. It grew out of the pre-war Tipsy B but gained a fully enclosed cabin, a clean low-wing cantilever monoplane layout with tailwheel undercarriage and spatted mainwheels, and a Walter Mikron II four-cylinder inverted inline engine of 46 kW. The type twice broke the world distance record for its FAI class, in 1950 and 1955, yet it was priced far above war-surplus light aircraft, so only three airframes beyond the prototype were completed in Belgium before the rest were sold unfinished and completed in Yorkshire. One example was still flying in 2025.