Sonex Aircraft and AeroConversions Products exhibit at AirVenture 2017 -- Located in booth 605/622 in the North Aircraft Display Area
Be sure to catch the Sonex Aircraft Open House and Homecoming Fly-In the day before AirVenture begins, Sunday July 23rd, at Sonex Factory Headquarters, on the east side of Wittman Field.
On display for the second year at AirVenture will be Red One, the factory prototype Waiex B-Model. The tricycle gear Sonex B-Model will also be on-display for the first time at AirVenture 2017, featuring the Dynon SkyView HDX Quick Panel.
New for 2017 is the addition of the Xenos Motorglider to the B-Model lineup. The Xenos now includes all new B-Model Sonex and Waiex features, and B-Model Conversion Kits are also now available for Xenos. The Xenos brings unmatched affordability to the motorglider market. Continuing the Sonex heritage of serving the soaring community with a 24:1 glide ratio kit aircraft with all the great features of the Sonex and Waiex designs.
Build and fly with the most exciting line of kit aircraft on the market, the Sonex Aircraft B-Models! The B-Models offer more room and comfort, more fuel, more panel space, more engine choices, and the same great Sonex Aircraft flight characteristics.
Due to popular demand, Legacy Sonex Aircraft builders will now be able to purchase Rotax engine mounts for their Legacy birds, and our unique machined Rotax Attach Bars are now available from AeroConversions products for use in any experimental aircraft.
The SubSonex Personal Jet will once again perform over the skies of AirVenture 2017. Award-winning airshow performer Bob Carlton of Vertigo Airshows will perform daytime shows, and his legendary Fire & Lights night pyro show in the SubSonex.
At-least one customer-built example of the SubSonex will make its’ AirVenture debut, the first customer built SubSonex ever to be displayed at Oshkosh. The SubSonex will be on display at the Sonex booth at AirVenture, along with the SubSonex cockpit mockup.
The dream is real: a truly-affordable personal jet aircraft. The SubSonex Personal Jet kit is priced at only 42,000 dollars. Kit plus engine is still under a 100 K. Add instruments, upholstery and paint, and you’re flying!
You can qualify to fly your SubSonex as a private pilot with no previous turbine aircraft experience, via the BonusJet transition training program offered by Desert Aerospace. The SubSonex also qualifies to be flown under the new BasicMed regulations. It’s time to put your money where your bucket list is. It’s time to get your jet!
In 2017, Sonex Aircraft has established Sonex Aerospace, LLC.
Working in collaboration with UAV manufacturer NASC, creating the UAS “Dream Team”, Sonex Aerospace will bring its airframe expertise to the unmanned aircraft marketplace with projects like the Teros Group 4 UAS, the redesigned Tigershark Block 4, and the SubSonex TwinJet UAS. All are derived from flight-proven manned systems: not concepts, real aircraft.
"Did-You-Know?" -- COOL Facts About Sonex!
- Sonex Aircraft was established in 1998 and has over 575 reported flying customer aircraft worldwide.
- A Sonex Aircraft can be built and flown for about the price of a nice new car: Completion Costs starting at $28,699
- Sonex Aircraft B-Model cockpit configuration is now available on all 2-place Sonex Aircraft models, offering more room and comfort, more panel space, more fuel, more engine options, more standard features, and the same great Sonex Aircraft flight characteristics. http://www.sonexaircraft.com/b-model/
- The Xenos Motorglider is the most-recent addition to the B-Model lineup, and conversion kits are available for existing Xenos builders.
- AllSonex Aircraft models feature removable wings, and the Onex single-place aircraft has folding wings! The aircraft are easy to transport and store, and can be built in minimal space.
- Sonex Aircraft offers the first truly affordable jet aircraft,the SubSonex Personal Jet, which can be built and flown for about $110,000 and can be flown under the new BasicMed regulations.
- SubSonex customers do not need any previous turbine aircraft experience. The BonusJet transition training program offered by Desert Aerospace will give you experience with the same TJ-100 engine system used in the SubSonex and will qualify you for your Letter of Authorization to fly your SubSonex.
- A customer-built SubSonex jet will be at AirVenture 2017, the first customer SubSonex to appear at the show.
- Sonex Aircraft now has engine mount support for Rotax 912-series engines, and AeroConversions Rotax Attach Bars can be used on custom engine mounts for any experimental aircraft, greatly simplifying the engine mount requirements for Rotax.
- Sonex Aircraft owns AeroConversions Products, producing the AeroVee Engine Kit (80 hp), AeroVee Turbo (100 hp), the AeroInjector Throttle Body Injector, and accessories for experimental aircraft like Throttle Quadrants, Brakes, Trim Systems, Stick Grips and more! http://www.aeroconversions.com
- A renowned airshow team in Argentina, Hangar del Cielo, uses AeroInjector Throttle Body Injectors on their Rotax 912 installations to replace the supplied float carbs, giving them full aerobatic capability and more control over their engines. Hangar del Cielo sells custom Rotax intake manifolds for use with the AeroInjector!
- Sonex Aircraft holds an Open House and Homecoming Fly-In event every year, the Sunday before AirVenture begins, including a “mass-taxi” arrival of customer and factory Sonex Aircraft from the Sonex Factory to AirVenture grounds.
- Sonex Aircraft hasestablished Sonex Aerospace, LLC to serve the military and commercial UAV market in a Business Collaboration Agreement with UAS provider Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation.
- Sonex founder and president John Monnett first came to the kit aircraft scene in 1972 with his Sonerai formula VW racer design. Previous to Sonex, John has multiple variants of the Sonerai, the Monerai sailplane, Monex Racer and Moni motorglider designs to his credit, along with the AeroVee line of VW aircraft engine conversions. John is an inductee into the EAA Homebuilders Hall of Fame and has earned the EAA Freedom of Flight Award, the SETP Spirit of Flight Award, the EAA August Raspet Award and many other distinctions. The Monex Racer still holds a world record set in 1982 for speed over a 500km closed-course. You can learn more about John Monnett in his biography, “John Monnett: From Sonerai to Sonex”
Sonex Aircraft Makes News... LOTS of it!
- Airborne 07.19.17: NEW Kitfox Speedster!!!, Rotax 4 Sonex, Trig TY96A/TY97A
- Sonex Aircraft AeroConversions Introduces Rotax Engine Mount Attach Bars
- Sonex Holds 14th Annual Open House And Homecoming Fly-In July 23rd In Oshkosh
- Sonex Aerospace, LLC Debuts At AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017
- AeroSports Update: B-Model Xenos Motorglider Introduced!
- Airborne 01.10.17: B-Model Xenos, World Gliding Championships, Fake Pilot
- Aero-News Network Year In Review 2016: Sport Aviation
- AeroSports Update: Sonex Offers WBParts SmartKit Hardware
- Airborne 12.21.16: Huerta Staying On?, WAI Hall of Fame, Another SubSonex
- AeroSports Update: Another SubSonex First Flight
- Aero-TV: Building A New Aviation Dynasty - Sonex Aircraft At Oshkosh 2016
- Airborne 05.24.16: Cessna S/E Turbo-Prop, GE’s H75 Turboprop, Sonex B-Models
- AeroSports Update: NKET Audits Sonex B-Models And Xenos
- Airborne 05.10.16: Waiex B-Model, Airbus Perlan Mission II, V-280 Valor
- AeroSports Update: Waiex B-Model First Flight!
- Airborne 04.05.16: Blue Origin Threepeat, B-Model Sonex, Piper M600/UND Order
- AeroSports Update: The SubSonex Kit Matures
- Sonex Aircraft Announces Development Of Sonex And Waiex B-Models
- Airborne 02.18.16: Sonex/Waiex B-Model Intro, Merlin PSA, Citation Latitude
- AeroSports Update: First Customer-Built SubSonex Flies!
- Barnstorming: First Flight -- Sonex 1517 Makes A Break For It
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