So you have a tail dragger, you love the great idea that is the Flyleds Combo lights, but you crave the amazing light output from the Flyleds Seven Stars lights, right?

Introducing the Tail Dragger Max light.
Simply the best light available for your tail dragger aircraft.

The traditional way lights are arranged on tail dragger planes is to have one (very average) light on one wing aimed straight ahead for landing, with the other (very average) light aimed lower for taxiing. It's like you're landing with one eye closed, and then swapping to the other eye when you're trying to find or navigate the taxiways.

With two Tail Dragger Max lights you will have an incredible amount of light aimed correctly for landing, and then when the tail is on the ground you can still see where you're going with light aimed correctly for taxiing coming from both sides of the plane.

From a single Tail Dragger Max light you get 6500 lumens of clear white 5000k light aimed straight ahead, plus another 2500 lumens of light aimed 20 degrees lower for taxiing. Our landing lights are fitted with collimating lenses making a tight 8 degree beam, throwing the light as far forward as possible so you get to see those runway numbers as early as possible. The taxi lights are fitted with diffuser lenses to spread the beam across the ground.

For reference your average 50 watt halogen headlight fitted to so many RV's is a poorly formed beam of yellow light around 5-700 lumens.
Just the landing light section alone of the Tail Dragger Max light is 8-10 times, or double, double, double, plus a bit more!, the amount of light. Stop and think about that for a second!

These lights literally do turn night into day! That's a well worn catch phrase, but this video from customer Don H will leave you with no doubt:

The Tail Dragger Max light has two power inputs, giving you high beam/low beam functionality.
The Main power input will light up all seven lights at once, while the optional Taxi power input will light up just the top two taxi lights so you can be more courteous to others when you're on the ground. Two diodes keep the power inputs separated.

The Main power input draws a maximum of 8 amps, and the taxi lights (alone) around 2 amps. The light is suited for 12 volt power systems only. And of course, with our time proven linear power supply design driving each LED, there will not be any intercom or radio noise. Guaranteed.

The Tail Dragger Max light will drop right into place in your RV-14 light bays, no extra brackets required, and it should be a simple retrofit into your Van's or Duckworks PAR36 sized (4" round hole) leading edge light bay, as found on your RV-4, RV-6, RV-7, RV-8, RV-9, Murphy Rebel, Super Cub, etc etc!

If you have a rectangular halogen in there now it's only four screws to remove the bracket from the wing and you can easily enlarge the hole out at the bench with a dremel type tool. We have a cutting guide you can download here.

Supplied in parts form to save on shipping volume and cost, requiring just a screwdriver and 20 minutes of your time to assemble. Assembly instructions can be found here.

For 12 volt systems only.
7-8 amps for the Main power input (all seven lights on)
2 amps for the Taxi power input
PAR36 sized light (4" diameter mounting hole)
730 grams / 26oz. Sold individually.

Last year we supplied Van's Aircraft with a single Tail Dragger Max light to try out on their factory demonstrator RV-14. This year they bought another one to complete the package. "Those suckers sure are bright!" says Brian Hickman, Design Engineer with Van's.

Like to keep reading some more about the lighting goodness that the Tail Dragger Max lights are? Read this link on VAF.

GOT WIGWAG? Please see our two Wigwag products below. Having your lights turned on and flashing for every flight you make is the key to being seen coming from miles away.