Aircraft
Octans Cygnus Prototype Flies To LABACE
Octans has applied for ANAC certification of the Cygnus
Octans Aircraft Cygnus airplane
The Octans Cygnus cruises at 160 knots and can fly nearly 1,000 nm. (Photo: Antonio Carlos Carreiro/AIN)

Octans Aircraft brought its prototype five-seat piston single Cygnus to LABACE, and the company has applied for Brazilian ANAC certification of the airplane. Having exhibited at LABACE 2019, Brazil-based Octans at the time promised to return to LABACE with certification plans for Cygnus.

Prototype 001 arrived at Congonhas Airport for LABACE 2023 under its own power, flown from Octans’s upstate São João da Boa Vista factory by two pilots. The trip added more time to the prototype’s already logged 100 flight-test hours.