Avions Tipsy, founded around 1935 in Gosselies by Ernest Oscar Tips, was a Belgian aircraft design company. Aircraft designed by Avions Tipsy were constructed at Avions Fairey (Tips was chairman of Avions Fairey). From 1961 aircraft were constructed by Cobelavia, established to finish the production of the Tipsy T.66 Nipper as Cobelavia Nipper Mk.II D-158.
Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government. On 1 June 1976 it separated from the UK parent and became SONACA.
Tipsy T.66 Nipper
The Tipsy T.66 Nipper is an aerobatic light aircraft, developed in 1952 by Ernest Oscar Tips of Avions Fairey at Gosselies in Belgium. It was designed to be easy to fly, cheap to buy and cheap to maintain. It was designed for both factory production and homebuild.
Tipsy (Cobelavia) T.66 Nipper Mk.II, registration OO-EFA, built ????, serial number 75 Vliegveld Hilversum (EHHV), Hilversum, Netherlands, 4 February 2017
