Country of origin:

Australia

Description:

Single-seat light sport aircraft

Power Plant:

One 18 kw (24 hp) JPX three-cylinder air-cooled radial engine

Specifications:

History:

The Syndetta was a single-seat ultralight aircraft of tubular steel construction with fabric covering designed and built by Joseph Kunovsky of Winston Hills, a suburb of Sydney, NSW in the 1990s.  It was powered by a three-cylinder radial air-cooled engine in the pusher configuration.  This aircraft was the culmination of a series of designs and models built to prove the concept by the owner / builder, and had a swept canard wing and a small canard wing to the front of the fuselage.  The pilot sat in a fully enclosed cockpit.  Notable on the design was the two fins, one on each side of the fuselage, with the engine set on top of the rear fuselage between the fins.  The aircraft had a tricycle undercarriage.

It seems early in its testing career the designer / builder passed away and the machine and a series of scale models of various designs by Mr Kunovsky were gifted to the Australian Aviation Museum at Bankstown, NSW where it joined a number of other interesting Australian designed and built designs. However, following the demise of the museum in 2019 the fate of the aircraft is not known but is believed, with other aircrft from the museum, to have been shipped to a museum at Wanaka in New Zealand.