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.

FMI: www.precisionwindsports.com/, Factory Page: www.airborne.com.au

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).

FMI: www.aircreation.net/

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.

FMI: www.tampabayaerosport.com/

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).

FMI: www.sport-aviation-expo.com