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Flight Design GmbH, based in Germany, said in a news release it has applied for “a planned receivership which allows for reorganization of the company.” The filing will enable the company to deal with a “liquidity crunch.”The crunch is driven mainly by one international customer that “has not settled a bill of over seven digit […]

In rural Holden, Missouri, roughly 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, is a 10-acre island of recreational aviation in a vast ocean of corn and soybeans. The pole barns adjacent to its 1000-foot grass strip look like those on neighboring farms, until you look inside. The hulking gray lathe, milling machine, and drill press don’t […]

Despite some eyewitness reports, including one from a longtime pilot, it’s still not clear what led to the crash of a law-enforcement version of a Flight Design light sport aircraft in California last week. Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Ballantyne, 52, and James Chavez, 45, a pilot for the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office, died when the specially […]

The U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, held in Sebring, Florida, every January since 2004, may be changing to a new date next year, organizers said on Monday. “Weather challenges in recent years have given us the opportunity to review and assess the best possible time to produce a successful 2017 event,” airport director Mike Willingham said […]

As a percentage of the total cars sold in the U.S., Corvettes and Camaros are but a tiny slice. Chevrolet sold about 35,000 ‘Vettes last year. The fact that they moved even that many shows that Americans have a taste for vehicles stuffed with far more horsepower than they could conceivably ever need. But need […]

Every show we cover seems to feature one airplane that’s the crowd magnet and at this week’s Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, it’s the Commuter Craft Innovator. This airplane is a canard design vaguely reminiscent of the Long-EZ but with aspirations to be both an experimental amateur built and, eventually, an LSA. Although mock-ups of […]

“Affordable aircraft” are what the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo is touting in its tagline this year, and we’ve found one: the $34,000 Merlin PSA, which Aeromarine LSA debuted at the show. Chip Erwin shows us around the eminently affordable experimental in this video,and you canread more here. view on YouTube

Wanna buy an airplane cheap? A company called Aeromarine LSA may have just what you’re looking for in the form of the Merlin PSA, which debuted Wednesday at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring. The Merlin PSA — for Personal Sport Airplane — is a lightweight, single-seat aircraft powered by a Rotax 582 two-stroke […]

Despite chilly temperatures, the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo opened in Sebring Wednesday morning with a record number of exhibitors. Show organizer Jana Filip said as of late Wednesday, both outdoor and indoor space was still being sold and that outdoor section was the largest in the show’s 12-year history. “Indoor, we’ve got a few more […]

As a Florida resident with more than a decade of Sunshine State winters behind me, I have to admit that the Sport Aviation Expo has a knack for picking the coldest day to open the show. It was in the high 30s in central Florida, with scattered frost. But no matter; it warmed up and […]