LSA - Light-Sport Aircraft

More popular than ever, light-sport aircraft (LSAs) are here and flying. Discover the latest trends in sport planes and see the aircraft that are making the dream of flying a reality for thousands.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Masters Of Glass: LSA Avionics Roundup High-tech, affordable glass panels continue to impress with amazing innovation The economy hasn't dampened the resolve or enthusiasm of the avionics industry, which continues its feverish develop-ment of ever-more-spectacular instrumentation to help us fly with greater awareness, safety and simplicity.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Grandpa’s Kitfox…Not! A lively, refined STOL winner 26 years in the making Just a few minutes into my flight with Kitfox's head honcho John McBean, it's obvious the current Kitfox Super Sport (SS) resembles the original kit plane of the 1980s, mostly in name only.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Easy Ownership: The Great LSA Paradigm shifts happen...and we’re right in the middle of one! Herewith, the Essential Question: What's great about owning and flying an LSA?

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Sebring 2011: Rays Of Hope Ahead? The planes and people came...and light-sport keeps on truckin’ The year’s first major aviation show, Florida’s U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, went off swimmingly, if a mite frigidly in January, with good attendance, thanks to show organizer Bob Woods and his friendly volunteers.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 LSA Buyer's Guide Time for young (and old) pilots’ fancies to turn skyward with 30+ sport planes What a great time to be a pilot! The economy gains traction, Big Tin (Cessna and Piper) flexes its muscles as more Skycatchers and PiperSports find homes across America, and new S-LSA—111 models as we go to press—continue to come on line.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Evektor Sportstar Max: An LSA For All Seasons Mature, stable, fun, comfortable: Evektor’s superb Sportstar max offers the whole package I stand by the Evektor SportStar Max at the 2nd Annual Midwest LSA Expo in Mount Vernon, Ill., talking with a gentleman (let’s call him Gary), who epitomizes the typical “hot prospect” to buy a high-end S-LSA.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Sirius TL-3000: High society—In blue jeans Elegant, sexy, high-performing...and oh so friendly It’s not every day you fly an airplane where sensuality in form joins a flying function so affable, you wonder if you’re flying the same airplane you climbed into.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 King Kong "Little" Cub CubCrafters’ top LSA offers a big surprise when the throttle goes forward I used to have a buddy in the drag-racing business who claimed that given enough horsepower, you could push a Peterbilt through the Mach in a quarter mile.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Capetown Racing Light-sport floatplane that's a joy to fly Given this 50:1 advantage, floatplanes or seaplanes make a lot of sense; there are many places you can land, plus you can reach interesting locations you never considered in a land plane.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 2010 Remos GX Avıator II The Joy Of Flight Nimble, solid, lovely, well-built and what a hoot to fly A high, dense line of clouds has moved over Great Barrington Airport (GBR) in western Massachusetts.

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