SportairUSA

Plenty of folks think LSA are mainly carbon fiber speedsters with autopilots and huge computer screen instrumentation. No doubt, we have some beauties that are equipped like luxury sport planes. If you’ve got the budget, the Light-Sport industry has the aircraft. Yet not everyone can afford those birds and not everyone wants one. *** FAA […]

It’s a great thing when a plan comes together. Consider an extension of the LSA Tour that debuted after Sebring 2011. Then, five or six brands flew around to a half dozen Florida airports and showed their LSA to groups of varying sizes. It was a first attempt, planned rather late without sufficient time to […]

Every now and then the marketing geniuses in Light-Sport aviation have an exceptionally good idea. Here’s one of them. Initially organized by SportairUSA’s Bill Canino and now-American Legend marketer Dave Graham (formerly of Gobosh), a flock of planes including five of the most popular brand names will set off for Sebring-After-Sebring… or what they are […]

Bush iCub Engine make/model: 100hp Rotax 912 ULS TBO (hrs.): 2000 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1295 Empty weight (lbs.): 770 Useful load (lbs.): 525 Fuel capacity (gals.): 18 (24 optional) Wingspan: 30 ft. 10 in. Cabin width (in.): 26.3 PERFORMANCE Vne (mph): 128 Vso (mph): 38 Max speed (mph): 115 Service ceiling (ft.): 14,400 Best […]

SIRIUS TL-3000 Engine make/model: Rotax 912 UL-S Horsepower: 100 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 767 (varies) Useful load, std. (lbs.): 553 Wing tank capacity (gals.): 34 Wingspan (ft.): 30.8 Wing area (sq. ft.): 121.6 Cargo volume (cu. ft.): 14.66 Load limit (G’s): +4/-2 Cabin width (in.): 46 PERFORMANCE Vne (kts.): 142 […]

If you want to have a rocking good time without ever leaving your seat, check out this video clip of an upcoming film titled, “No Second Chances.” Billed as “an Alaskan bush adventure on steroids” if this teaser is any indication, ho shee mama, this ought to be some flick!    *** The bigger news, […]

SportairUSA, run by proprietor Bill Canino, has long been an innovator in the LSA business. His company doesn’t build Light-Sport airplanes but Bill has triggered several interesting add-ons: he was one of the first (along with Flight Design USA) to install parachutes on all StingSports; he developed the GreenLine engine monitor system, he offered the […]

Not a company to rest on their laurels, TL Ultralight — represented in America since the beginning of LSA by Sportair USA — debuted their Sting S4 at the German Aero show in April. Besides developing an all-new high-wing design (the TL-3000 Sirius …photo inset) — the S4 is the newest generation of the Czech […]

Most folks following the Light-Sport Aircraft development know the Sting, refreshed for the U.S. market with the S3 model. I covered the development announcement of TL Ultralight’s new high wing. Now, welcome to the TL3000 Sirius as the newest SLSA to hit the market in a blur of new offerings seemingly triggered after the industry […]

2009 STING S3 Engine make/model: Rotax 912 ULS Horsepower: 100@SL Propeller: 3-blade, carbon-composite Woodcomp Gross weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 780 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 540 Usable fuel, std. (gals./lbs.): 20.5 Usable fuel with wing tanks (gals.) 32.5 PERFORMANCE Cruise speed, 75% power (kts.): 116 Vne (kts.): 164 Best rate of climb, two […]