Winner B150
The Winner B150 is a Belgian helicopter that was designed and produced by Winner SBS of Dinant. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly-aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction.Design and development
The B150 was designed to comply with the French CNSK rules. It features a single main rotor and tail rotor, a two-seats-in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with a bubble windshield, skid landing gear and a Solar T62T-32 turboshaft engine.
The aircraft fuselage is made from aluminum and composites. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of and a chord of. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is.
Reviewer Werner Pfaendler, describes the design as providing "easy and fun flying".
Production of the B150 was suspended due to deficiencies in the Solar T62 powerplant. The company said, "it was decided to abandon the Solar T62 turbine; this second-hand power source appeared to be obsolete, difficult to find in a proper condition and with limited performance". Instead the company redesigned the airframe to accept a piston engine as the B200 and also a TS100 turboshaft engine as the B250.
