Sunward ST

The Sunward ST is a Chinese ultralight trike designed and produced by Sunward Tech of Zhuzhou. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development

The ST was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of.
The aircraft design features a strut-braced topless hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing and composites. It uses a double surface Grif Hazard wing, made by the Italian company Grif Italia. The span wing is supported by struts and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is an Austrian-made twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 582 engine or four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition Rotax 912UL engine.
The Rotax 582-equipped model has an empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload is.

Variants

;ST582
;ST912