A New Single-Seat SportPlane Shows Great Potential For Serious Fun
While at the Sport Aviation Expo 2014, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell stopped by to talk with Dan Weseman, the president of Sport Performance Aviation. Sitting on display was their snappy looking single place light sport airplane that seems to be cut from a different cloth than most other LSA’s on display. Called the Panther, the airplane is being produced only in a kit version at this time. It is designed for someone to certify as an experimental amateur built airplane that complies with the LSA definition.
"The third class medical certificate for private pilots is neither costly nor burdensome, being required every five years below age 40 and every two years thereafter. Its very existence deters individuals with clearly unsafe medical conditions from applying." Source: Excerpt of a letter sent by Mark Eidson, M.D., president of The Civil Aviation Medical Association (CAMA) to members of congress.
A mobile service not open to public correspondence used to provide communications essential to conduct the activities being performed by or directed from private aircraft.
The National WASP WWII Museum seeks to educate and inspire every generation with the history of the WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, the first women in history to fly American's military aircraft, and who forever changed the role of women in aviation!
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