Tecnam P2002 Sierra

The Tecnam P2002 Sierra is a two-seat, low-wing light aircraft designed and built by the Italian manufacturer Tecnam and introduced in the early 2000s. Development began in 2002 to meet both the European very light aircraft rules and the American light sport aircraft rules. It sold strongly as a flight trainer: by 2005 Tecnam was giving about 70 per cent of its production capacity to the Sierra, building six a week, and had delivered roughly 180 of them. The airframe is mainly conventional aluminium with a bubble canopy, a low-mounted wing and a steerable nosewheel, and a typical aircraft carries a single Rotax 912 S2 engine rated at 100 horsepower, or 75 kilowatts. Variants include the P2002 LSA, the fixed-gear JF, the retractable-gear JR and RG, the kit-built EA and the Sierra Mk II, which was certified as an ultralight by German authorities in 2020. The Hellenic Air Force and the Argentine Air Force have also ordered the JF version. The light sport version lists an empty weight of 331 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of 598 kilograms.