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Several aviation sources recently carried news about Icon Aircraft and their A5 LSA seaplane development. Icon Aircraft has been waiting — surely with increasing impatience — for FAA to answer their formal request for exemption to the Light-Sport Aircraft gross weight parameter. FAA normally replies in 120 days, however, more than a year passed and […]
Across the northern U.S. states and across much of Europe it was a lousy, cold, snowy winter. It seemed everyone I spoke to at Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany complained about the crappy winter and their laments mirrored those from America’s northlands. However, the weather appears to be going directly from winter to summer. It was […]
TBM 850 Elite Basic Price: $3,205,087 Price (typically equipped): $3.37 million Powerplant: PT6A-66D Propeller: Four-blade Hartzell HC-E4N-3 Wing Span: 41 ft. 7 in. Length: 34 ft. 11 in. Wingspan: 38 ft. 4 in. Length: 26 ft. Seating capacity: Six Max Gross Takeoff Weight (lbs.): 7394 Empty Weight (lbs.): 4589 Fuel Capacity (gals.): 291.6 Standard Useful […]
Several Florida airports have been active during the recession in their efforts to pull new clients. We reported earlier such projects but went to visit one of these over the last weekend. Renegade Light Sport Aircraft had an open house staged in their gargantuan 71,000 square foot hangar and offices on the Fort Pierce airport. […]
Here are two aircraft from sources thousands of miles apart. Likewise, the aircraft could hardly be more different yet each has something special about it. You’ll want to catch both videos. We’ll start with the one we flew: Just Aircraft’s brilliant Highlander SuperSTOL. The company has delivered more than 300 Highlander kits making the side-by-side […]
We were busy at Aero Friedrichshafen 2013, knocking out more than 30 videos for your viewing information and entertainment. That’s more than seven videos per day and a sum of more than five hours total running time (more than three Hollywood movies in minutes of viewing time). With these and all the videos shot at […]
Pipistrel Sinus LSA Basic Price: $96,480 Price As Flown: $125,000 Engine: Rotax 912 UL2 Engine TBO (hrs.): 2000 Wing Span: 49’1½” Aspect Ratio: 18.3:1 Propeller: Pipistrel VARIO Max Takeoff Weight (lbs.): 1290 Basic Empty Weight (lbs.): 626 Useful Load (lbs.): 664 Fuel Capacity, Two Wing Tanks (gals): 15.86 (26.4 optional) Limit Load Factor (G): +4/ […]
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