What is a Light Sport Aircraft?
Light Sport Aircraft can come in many shapes, forms and designs. They can be built by manufacturers, from kits and even be home built and designed. Additional registration and inspection procedures may be applicable depending on the source of your LSA.
In the US the FAA says that a Light Sport Aircraft meets the following conditions.
- A Simple, low-performance, low-energy aircraft including airplanes, gliders, gyroplanes, balloons, airships, weight-shift control (trikes), and powered parachutes. Having a maximum weight of 1,320 pounds (1,430 pounds seaplanes).
- A Single reciprocating engines (which includes diesel and rotary engines, but does not allow jet engines). A Maximum stall speed of 45 knots (52 mph with no lift-enhancing devices). A Maximum top speed of 120 knots (138 mph).
- Fixed landing gear (except if equipped with amphibious floats, which can be repositionable once in flight).
- Fixed-pitch propeller (unless equipment is ground-only repositionable).
LSA News brings you news and articles from the LSA industry and is an excellent source of information for all of your LSA and Sport Pilot questions. LSA Manufacturers, Owners, Industry Vendors and LSA Operators including Sport Pilot license holders can all utilize the news and information available at Light Sport Aircraft News to stay current and up to date on the latest industry trends.
Flight Design Dealer Supports Extreme Scouting Leading LSA Seller to Display CTLS at Country’s Largest Shopping Mall South Woodstock, CONNECTICUT / January 7, 2010 — Normally, airplanes fly over the largest enclosed mall in the world as they approach runways for Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. But on January 10, 2010 Flight Design USA and the Metro Lakes District of the Boy Scouts of America will bring one in much lower by staging a Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) into the mall as a tool to raise awareness and support for “Project Extreme Day” at the Mall of America. |
TCM Offers First-Run Engine Core Price Special January 6, 2010 – (Mobile, AL) – Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc. (TCM), a Teledyne Technologies, Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) company announced today a new pricing incentive for its engine customers. For a short time beginning today, TCM will offer a price discount on factory-new and factory-rebuilt engines for customers exchanging a First-Run Engine Core. |
| Continental Motors Maintains Engine Prices in 2010 January 4, 2010 – (Mobile, AL) – Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc. (TCM), a Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) company announced today that 2010 prices for Factory New and Factory Rebuilt engines will not increase. |
New Information Concerning Rotax Aircraft Engines Foremost Presenter, Phil Lockwood, Educates Users, Mechanics, and More
Sebring, FLORIDA / December 30, 2009 — As 2010 arrives, the most popular powerplant for Light-Sport Aircraft offers a new Time Between Overhaul and builds on its capability to use auto fuel and new oils specially developed for the engine. The man best equipped and most experienced at delivering details of these new qualities is national Rotax expert, Phillip Lockwood of Lockwood Aircraft Supply. |
Cessna Delivers First Skycatcher WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 18, 2009 - Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today delivered its first Model 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft during a ceremony at Yingling Aircraft in Wichita, Kan. Yingling is one of three U.S. re-assembly facilities for the Skycatcher. |
Flight Design USA Announces More Demonstration Centers Second and Third Centers Operating in Santa Monica, CA and Portland, OR South Woodstock, CONNECTICUT / December 15, 2009 — Flight Design USA announced that its newest distributor, Flight Design West has located two new aircraft, one in Santa Monica, California and a second in Portland, Oregon as part of the growth of the aircraft sales and service outlets for the CTLS line of aircraft. The new facilities represent the company’s second and third locations on the West Coast. The first center was located at Lone Mountain Aircraft in North Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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