AstroFlight Sunrise

AstroFlight Sunrise
Role Experimental aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer AstroFlight
Designer Roland Boucher
First flight 4 November 1974
Status Retired
Number built 2

The AstroFlight Sunrise was an uncrewed experimental electric aircraft technology demonstrator and the first aircraft to fly on solar power.

First conceived in November 1970, the Sunrise first flew on 4 November 1974 from Bicycle Lake, a dry lakebed on the Fort Irwin Military Reservation, California, United States. The first prototype was destroyed on its 28th flight by turbulence. The improved Sunrise II flew the following year.

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