The ICP Savannah is a high wing, single engine, ultralight with side-by-side seating for two produced in Italy

Italy

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. It has sold in large numbers, particularly in Europe

Europe

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. The Savannah is in production, in both kit and ready to fly form.

Design and development

The Savannah is a conventionally laid out two seat ultralight which can be bought in ready to fly or kit form. It has much in common with the Zenith CH 701, though the Savannah has a different empennage; later versions have further diverged from the Zenith, particularly in the wing design. Manufacture (both ready to fly and kits) is done in the ICP premises located in Castelnuovo Don Bosco

Castelnuovo Don Bosco

Castelnuovo Don Bosco is a comune in the province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 20 km east of Turin and about 25 km northwest of Asti, on a hill near the confluence of the Nevissano and Bardella.Castelnuovo Don Bosco borders the following municipalities:...

 (Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, Italy

Italy

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), where the firm moved on September 10, 2009 from the original plant in Piovà Massaia

Piovà Massaia

Piovà Massaia is a comune in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km east of Turin and about 20 km northwest of Asti....

.

Structurally, the Savannah is a metal semi-monocoque. Most variants have a constant chord wing like that of the Zenith, with flaps and ailerons combined into Junkers

Junkers

Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG , more commonly Junkers, was a major German aircraft manufacturer. It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany. It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers,...

-style flaperons. The Savannah Advanced has a shorter, tapered wing. Early variants retained full span leading edge slats

Leading edge slot

A leading edge slot is an aerodynamic feature of the wing of some aircraft to reduce the stall speed and promote good low-speed handling qualities. A leading edge slot is a span-wise gap in each wing, allowing air to flow from below the wing to its upper surface...

, later replaced with vortex generators. The high wing is braced to the lower fuselage with a V-pair of struts on each side. At their base, the spatted mainwheels of the tricycle undercarriage are mounted on cantilever legs. The Savannah can be mounted on Kevlar

Kevlar

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/carbon fiber

Carbon fiber

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 floats; swapping from land to water gear takes about 150 min. An alternative floatplane version, using amphibious

Amphibious aircraft

An amphibious aircraft or amphibian is an aircraft that can take off and land on either land or water. Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes that are equipped with retractable wheels, at the expense of extra weight and complexity, plus diminished range and fuel economy compared to planes...

 floats, was called the Savannah Hydro.

Savannahs have been powered with a variety of small engines in the 35-70 kW range. The cabin seats two side-by-side under the wing, the newer XL version having increased width and enhanced glazing. Aft, the fuselage is flat sided, with the underside rising towards the tail. The rectangular tailplane and elevators, which use a conventional airfoil unlike that of the Zenith, are set at the top of the fuselage with the rudder running between the elevators to the keel. Fin and rudder are straight tapered and slightly swept.

Operational history

Sales, beginning around 2000, had by 2010 reached 650 aircraft or kits. As of mid-2010 there have been about 513 Savannahs and Bingos on the registers of European countries west of Russia. Smaller numbers fly in North America, where the agents was Skykits Co., replaced in 2011 by I.C.P. Aviation North America, LLC (ICPANA), and elsewhere.

It is expected that the total number of ICP aircraft (all models, mainly Savannah and Bingo) produced will exceed 2,000 units by the end of 2011.

In 2008 an order from the Indian Air Force

Indian Air Force

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 was expected.

Variants

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2010/11
Bingo 503:37 kW (50 hp) two cylinder in line, two-stroke Rotax 503

Rotax 503

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 engine.
Super Bingo:First flown 19 October 2001. 68 kW (92 hp) two cylinder in line, geared Simonnini Victor 2 engine.
Bingo 4T:Introduced 2003. 45 kW (60 hp) two cylinder horizontally opposed four-stroke HKS 700E

HKS 700E

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 engine.
Savannah Advanced: Retrofit with new tapered wing of 8.00 m span and 9.40 m² area.
Vimana

ICP Vimana

The ICP Vimana is a single engine, two seat, high wing, light aircraft with STOL capability. Designed and built in Italy, it was in production as of 2010.-Design and development:...

:Introduced 2007. Current production, 2010. Optimised for STOL

STOL

STOL is an acronym for short take-off and landing, a term used to describe aircraft with very short runway requirements.-Definitions:There is no one accepted definition of STOL and many different definitions have been used by different authorities and nations at various times and for a myriad of...

 performance, with Savannah Advanced wing with double-slotted Fowler flaps, leading edge slats, single bracing struts. 74 kW (99 hp) Rotax 912 ULS flat four engine. Known in North America as the Rampage.
Savannah VG:Introduced 2007. Current production, 2010. Wing with leading edge slats replaced by vortex generators; stalling speed 50 km/h (31 mph). Engine choices: 74 kW (99 hp) Rotax 912 ULS flat four; 60 kW (80 hp) Jabiru 2200

Jabiru 2200

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 flat four; or the 60 kW (80 hp) Suzuki G10 three cylinder inline.
Savannah XL:Introduced 2009. Current production, 2010. As Savannah VG but with cabin width increased by bulged, transparent doors; transparent cabin roof; revised windscreen and cowling lines. Known in North America as the Savannah VGW.
Savannah S:New 2010 model, with rounded tail fuselage corners, derived from XL.

Specifications (XL - Jabiru engine)