Ace Aircraft Now Taking Deposits For Factory-Built Aircraft

Ace Aircraft Company is a sportplane company that currently sells plans and kits of "the first homebuilt aircraft ever made," the Corben Baby Ace, and its two-place successor, the Corben Junior Ace. Both aircraft currently meet the proposed standards of the FAA's new Light-Sport aircraft category. In anticipation of the Light-Sport aircraft category approval, Ace Aircraft Company is now taking deposits for their factory-built Baby Ace and Junior Ace aircraft.

As early as the 1920s, Mr. Orland G. Corben believed that flying should not be a rich man's luxury. He saw the need for an aircraft that was properly designed, inexpensive to build, and safe and easy to fly. To recognize this goal, Mr. Corben created the first homebuilt airplane (the first with commercually-available plans), the Corben Baby Ace.

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In 1954, Paul Poberenzy, who a year earlier had founded the Experimental Aircraft Association, built a Corben Baby Ace aircraft as a three-part series in Mechanix Illustrated. The success of the articles caused an explosion in the homebuilt movement. (The Corben Baby Ace that Mr. Poberenzy built is now in the EAA AirVenture Museum.)

Today, you can own and fly an aircraft with a history almost as long as that of powered flight itself. The Ace Aircraft Company offers plans, kits, and now factory built options for both the Baby Ace and the Junior Ace. "Indeed," the factory says, "Mr. Corben's dream in the 1920s of well designed, inexpensive, and safe homebuilt aircraft is still being realized today by the Ace Aircraft Company in Toccoa (GA)."

FMI: www.aceaircraft.net