Who Had LSA's at the Sport Pilot Expo?
Here's a guide to who the exhibitors were at Sebring last
week. We started with the ones the Expo listed and added the ones
that we personally saw and spoke with that weren't on the list. One
exhibitor at least (Titan) couldn't make the new dates.
We use the same categories as we did in our report on Day 2:
Reborn Legends, Young Turks, Legacy Kits, Trikes, Gyros, and
Powered Parachutes.
Here's the Trikes...
Airborne
This Australian trike maker was represented by Precision
Windsports, Inc., its US vendor, and also home of CFI Terri
Sipantzi, who was the first Trike Light-Sport CFI. Appropriately
enough, Airborne's trikes spent a lot of time... airborne.
Air Creation
John Kemmeries of Air Creation USA imports these French
masterpieces and teaches folks to fly them in the American
Southwest. The trike is where outdoor sports like hiking or
mountain climbing -- nature-appreciation sports, if you will --
come together with flying, and John is lyrical in his description
of early morning desert flights. That doesn't stop him from being
able to point precisely and with genuine enthusiasm to each of the
many improvements in the latest Air Creation TANARG trike (so
new he doesn't have it on the website yet, although some is on the
French site at www.aircreation.com).
Apollo
Apollo Trikes, and Cygnet Amphibious trikes for that matter,
were represented by local dealer TampaBay Aerosport. We spent a
little time with TampaBay Aerosport's Abid Farooqi, an engaging guy
with a great sense of humor and endless enthusiasm for the trike
sport. Abid told us of some upcoming record-breaking the guys have
in mind, and promised to keep us in the loop. He claims one model
of Apollo is the fastest trike there is.
Apollo Trikes are made in Europe (Hungary?) and Cygnets by the
Krucker firm (and Tampabay also represents Krucker's landbound
trikes) in Canada.
Well, that's it! If you were at the show, exhibiting, and
somehow we missed you, drop us a line (editor@aero-news.net) and we'll
update this listing, which we expect will be perennially
popular.
If you want to attend next year's US Sport Aviation Expo, it'll
be in January again, from the 11th to the 14th of January 2007, and
we'll see you there! (Note that the website hasn't been updated
yet. It will be in due course).