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Air Creation Fun

type of aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ12052786
Source-derived summary

The Air Creation Fun is a series of French single-surface ultralight trike wings, designed and produced by Air Création of Aubenas. The wing is widely used on Air Creation trikes as well as by other ultralight aircraft manufacturers.

Design and development

The series are cable-braced, king post-equipped hang glider-style wings designed as docile beginner and flight training wings for single and two-place trikes. They come in two sizes, the Fun 450, named for its gross weight in kilograms and the Fun 14, named for its metric wing area.

The wings are made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Trilam Dacron sailcloth, with a Mylar leading edge. The wing's crosstube is exposed and is of a floating design. The Fun 14 has a 10.0 m (32.8 ft) span, an aspect ratio of 7.4:1 and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The double surface portion is 40% and the wing folds using an "umbrella" system.

Variants

Fun 14

Wing designed for single-place trikes, with an area of 13.5 m2 (145 sq ft).

Fun 450

Wing designed for two-place trikes, with a maximum gross weight of 450 kg (990 lb) and an area of 17.4 m2 (187 sq ft).

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 202-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Creation, type and aircraft is the immediate research focus.
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