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            <div class="xg_user_generated"><p>This is a kit Zenair Zodiac model CH601 HD, built in Belgium in 2010 by an amateur manufacturer having already made two other similar models, including the second to the pneumatic retracting train. First flight in April 2011. Equipped with a Rotax 912ULS engine of 100 HP, this aircraft now flies in the French sky.</p></div>            </dd>
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