The Cygnet is designed for salt water, so a fresh-water rain shower is no problem. The Cygnet does not need indoor storage because it has a cover for the wing, a cover for the instrument panel, and the seats are quickly removable so they stay clean and dry. But if convenient to park your Cygnet under cover, that is even better. One quick and simple way is to throw a tarp over it. For best convenience in a regular parking spot, anchor one side of the tarp to the ground. Throw lines over the wing to pull the tarp over the wing and down the other side. The wing makes a great ridge pole, and the tarp draping down each side deflects leaves and snow and rain.
For indoor storage, all you need is a typical one-car garage. The standard residential garage door is 7 feet tall, which is 84 inches. To fit the Cygnet under a typical one-car garage door you remove two bolts to lower the wing down. To make it even quicker, you can replace those bolts with quick-release pins so you don’t even need a wrench.
Cygnet aircraft fits in residential garage
If your garage door height is 8 feet, you don’t even need to undo any bolts.
If the garage door height is 10 feet, you don’t need to undo any bolts or roll the Cygnet off its trailer:
How to lower your Cygnet wing:
- Put a strap from the corner of the control frame to the aft cross tube. Do this on both sides.
- Tighten the straps just enough that the control bar is not pressing against the trailering cradles. Now you can lift the control bar out of the wing trailering cradles.
- Tighten the straps a little more to pull the control bar aft of the trailering cradles. You can now lower the control bar down to the frame.
- If you want the wing even lower, remove the control bar.
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