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December 12, 2022

Paragon Flight Training Strengthens Ties with Piper

A New Seminole and Frasca FTD Cement Their Inclusion in Piper's Flight School Alliance

Paragon Flight Training, has expanded its training equipment with the addition of a brand-new Piper Seminole at its campus at Page Field in Fort Myers, Florida. Like other Piper customers as of late, Paragon elected to send its personnel to the manufacturer's Vero Beach facility to make the ferry flight themselves, breaking in the new plane with a little cross country.

Cessna Skymaster Testbed to Serve as ARPA-E SCALEUP, E-Bird Programs

Ampaire's work in electrified aviation bore some fruit with NASA funding under its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. The money, somewhat small in comparison to the kind of venture funding so often seen in the sustainable aviation field, is somewhat modest, perhaps more 'award' than actual booster funding. The Phase I award granted $150,000 for the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, mean to fund "fund sizing, architecture and other analytical studies over six months as a prelude to a potential Phase 2 award that would fund the system’s installation and testing on Ampaire’s Cessna Skymaster testbed," per Ampaire PR.