Tiger Cub Developments Sherwood Ranger

The Tiger Cub Developments (TCD) Sherwood Ranger is a single engine, tandem two seat biplane microlight designed and built in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.

[2] Almost 100 Tiger Cubs, which Light partly designed, appeared on the UK civil aircraft register.

[4] The fuselage of the Sherwood Ranger has an aluminium tube structure, with ply formers and spruce stringers, and is fabric covered apart from glass fibre mouldings in the engine and cockpit areas and forming the rear decking.

The fixed conventional undercarriage has mainwheels, fitted with brakes, on split axles mounted from a bungee sprung compression frame below the central fuselage and hinged by faired, V-form legs to its lower longerons.

The early aircraft were built as the LW variant, with a MTOW of 390 kk (860 lb) and with engines in the 37-49 kW (50-65 hp) power range.

The XP variant has short span wing (7.07 m (23 ft 2 in) to provide aerobatic capability and can be fitted with engines rated up to 75 kW (101 hp).

[4][6] Twelve Sherwood Rangers kits were produced by TCD until the death of Russ Light, after which the company ceased to trade.