Niki Kallithea


The Niki Kallithea is a Bulgarian autogyro designed and produced by Niki Rotor Aviation of Pravets, introduced in 2011. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development

The Kallithea is a development of the 2009 Niki Lightning, differing mainly in its use of a conventional two-tube tail boom that pases und the pusher propeller instead of mounting the tail boom through the propeller hub.
The Kallithea features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in tandem enclosed cockpit with fold-up doors, tricycle landing gear and a four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke Rotax 912 or six-cylinder, liquid cooled side-valve four-stroke flat six 4-litre gasoline D-Motor LF39 aircraft engine in pusher configuration. The doors can also be removed for flight.
The aircraft fuselage is a monocoque structure made from composites and fibreglass. Its two-bladed Vortech or Sport Copter rotor has a diameter of and a chord of. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is.

Specifications (Kallithea)