Wed, Aug 20, 2003
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.
One Key to EAA's Early Publicity
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)."
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