Echterdingen, GERMANY / 17 April 2007 — Flight Design, based in Echterdingen Germany, announced that it successfully completed a third party ASTM standards compliance audit arranged through the Light Aircraft Manufacturer’s Association (LAMA). Such independent audits help assure customers, insurance companies, membership organizations, and FAA that ASTM consensus standards are being followed.

Flight Design CEO, Matthias Betsch, stated, “Through LAMA we hired Aviation Services to review our documentation and to travel to Europe to examine our manufacturing facilities and processes. We are pleased to report that our 2005 Statement of Compliance was upheld by Aviation Services.” The examination provides an outside review of the documentation and testing used to make the FAA Statement of Compliance required to produce fully built Special Light-Sport Aircraft. The effort involves several days of document and process review plus an engineering review of test data.

“The Flight Design management team showed an impressive level of oversight and forward thinking,” said LAMA President, Tom Gunnarson. “The end product is not just a beautiful aircraft but a whole system of support that may be unrivaled in this fast-paced industry.” LAMA audits involve an intensive document review, a physical visit to the factory, and a follow-up engineering review, all by persons not employed by the company being audited. “The CT production facilities were a beehive of activity like I have never seen.” reported Gunnarson, who visited Ukraine as part of the LAMA review.

 Federal Aviation Administration officials right up to and including Administrator Marion Blakey have expressed very strong interest in such third party audits. She told LAMA officials that this voluntary compliance review was helpful to FAA’s mission regarding Light-Sport Aircraft.

 EAA has also voiced strong support for compliance audits and the LAMA decal that can be applied to an aircraft. “As this program matures, we’ll encourage our members to look for the LAMA decal to identify aircraft that have been evaluated for compliance with ASTM standards,” said Earl Lawrence, EAA’s vice president of government and industry relations.

 Flight Design is a 21-year-old air sport products producer based in Germany. Over 900 of its aircraft are flying in 25 countries. One of the first aircraft certified under the American ASTM standards, in 2005, the CT (“composite technology”) is currently the best-selling LSA in America. CT in several models has been popular in Germany and Europe for more than ten years.