General Aviation Aircraft
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Backstage With A Rock Star
An exclusive look into flight-testing one of the most anticipated light-sport aircraft: the Icon A5
Gobosh 800XP: Flying With Composites
It has been five years since the FAA approved the first LSA. Here’s one of the latest and most innovative entries in the class.
Getting Creative: Affordable Flying
With the economy in trouble, pilots are finding innovative ways of keeping themselves in the sky
Hawker Beechcraft Premier 1A: Little Big Jet
With six-passenger cabin seating, 450-knot cruise and fighter-like climb performance, the Premier 1A is the largest airplane in the light jet class
Gobosh 800XP
GOBOSH 800XP New price: $135,900 Engines make/model: Rotax 912 TBO (hrs.): 1500 Horsepower: 100@SL Propeller type: 3-blade, fixed-pitch, composite Elprop Gross weight (lbs.): 1320 Useful load (lbs.): 560 Payload (lbs.): 386 Fuel capacity (gals.): 29 Cabin width (in.): 45 PERFORMANCE Max cruise speed (kts.): 119 Best rate of climb, SL (fpm): 1050 Service ceiling (ft.): […]
Hawker Beechcraft Premier 1A
HAWKER BEECHCRAFT PREMIER IA New Price: $6.4 million Engines: (2) Williams FJ44-2A PERFORMANCE Max Cruise Speed (kts.): 451@FL330 Max Range (nm): 1460 Max Certified Altitude (ft.): 41,000 Takeoff Distance (ft.): 3792 Source: Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
SeaRey Reports Superb Oshkosh; Who Will Get #100?
We sit on the edge of hitting triple digits of Special Light-Sport Aircraft. Just before Oshkosh started, Van’s Aircraft announced their RV-12 qualified for SLSA airworthiness (which also allows the Oregon company to sell ELSA kits). People have started to ask, “Who will offer Number 100 SLSA?” One possibility is the SeaRey from Progressive Aerodyne. […]
