· ICAO24 4079fa· last seen 4d ago
G-BMGC is a Swordfish Aviation Swordfish, a single-engine piston aircraft. SkyMeter has tracked 176 flights totalling 90 hours of airtime via ADS-B. The most frequent segment is EGDY to EGDY. Service window in our records spans 399 days. Of those flights, 6 (3.4%) carry at least one detected incident — go-around, unstable approach, stall warning, or runway excursion. The Swordfish Aviation Swordfish has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,320 lb, light wake category.
About the Swordfish Aviation Swordfish
The Swordfish is a British single-seat ultralight aircraft that emerged from the UK's homebuilt and microlight movement of the 1980s. Designed and produced by Swordfish Aviation, it represents the classic era of amateur-built aircraft when builders prioritized simplicity, low cost, and the pure joy of flight over speed or payload. With its high-wing configuration and conventional taildragger landing gear, the Swordfish embodies traditional light aircraft design principles scaled down to the ultralight category, staying well within the UK's 390 kg (860 lb) single-seat deregulated microlight limit of that period.
The type found a modest following among British sport pilots who valued its straightforward construction and docile handling characteristics. Its operating envelope is typical of the ultralight class: a never-exceed speed around 100 knots, cruise in the mid-60s, and stall speeds in the mid-30s make it a fair-weather, low-and-slow flyer suited to local airfield circuits and short cross-country hops. The Swordfish never achieved large-scale production, remaining instead a niche design built by a handful of dedicated enthusiasts who appreciated its no-frills approach to recreational aviation.
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