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Pico 5 by Franz Mayr

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10. December 202515. February 2026 Editor No comments

Franz Mayr from Augsburg was a top German F3A pilot in the eighties. As early as 1973, he designed and built his own F3A aerobatic airplane. He called it PICO.

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