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Life is good if you like LSA seaplanes. I’ll review fi ve LSA seaplanes, either on the market or in devel-opment.

Today SeaRey reins as far and away the most suc-cessful and proven design with some 600 fl ying. While SeaRey has been an Experimental Amateur Built (EAB) model, they’ve been working diligently on SLSA approval and will eventually sell SLSA, ELSA, and EAB versions. Priced around $70,000 as a kit, SeaRey is the most affordable seaplane.

Owners are intensely loyal to the brand (Progressive Aerodyne) and the model. SeaRey is having a work-shop right before Sebring. More about that shortly.

SeaMax is the next most proven and accepted seaplane. Manufactured in Brazil, about 100 are flying including a handful in the USA. SeaMax America is the new importer for the handsome LSA seaplane from prolific designer (and nice guy) Miguel Rosario. From Great Neck, New York Richard Rofe said, “We have added many new fea-tures and have moved to a much larger production facility. We plan to reintroduce ... the only SLSA [amphibious seaplane] that you can actually buy and fly!”

They are working on their new website; for now ring Richard at 516-466-5258.

Now come three designs aimed directly at the LSA market; indeed, all have emerged since and as a consequence of FAA’s new rule and each is quite outstanding in its design appeal.

Capturing the most attention is the Icon A5, which has garnered more than 700 delivery slot orders since its introduction at AirVenture 2008. The stunning A5 benefi ted from top-notch design and engineering staff hired from Scaled Composites, famous for building SpaceShipOne and other creations.

Icon is also the funding leader, professionally pursuing deep pocket investors. Using its Silicon Valley roots and a Hollywood presentation, Icon generated a summer 2011 round of fi nancing val-ued at $25 million. No one else is close. However, others are following.

Newly announced was the EQP2, which stands for Equator P2 Excursion a design of Norway. Equator Aircraft is in the news as the company reports earning 4.2 million Norwegian krones or roughly $750,000 of government development funding.

The company says, “The EQP2 Excursion is a carbon composite, hybrid/electric amphib-ian aircraft.” They plan an Experimental ver-sion first but plan to pursue the LSA market and more. EQP2 will be powered by the 125-hp (85 kW) Emrax engine. Check their website for some eye-popping art of this pretty entry.

Also gaining increasing media attention is the equally distinctive Lisa from French designers Erick Herzberger and Luc Bernole. Though pric-ing is rather stratospheric (€300,000), the design standard and feature list are long including fold-ing wings and their patented Seafoils, “a kind of hydrofoils located under the aircraft fuselage.” The project is flying and, as with Icon and Equa-tor, Lisa Airplanes has a very slick website with lots of quality images. I’ll have more on Lisa in the near future.

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Since most of us can remember the aviation cal-endar revolved around Oshkosh (now known as AirVenture), which ended in the fi rst days of Au-gust. Fall brought AOPA’s Expo (now Summit) and NBAA’s giant jet show. At the close of those shows, we began a rather long winter until Sun ‘n Fun rolled around in mid-April. Certainly, we had all manner of regional events and pancake breakfasts but the major airshows were over, it seemed. That is, until Sebring happened.

Eight years ago, the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo popped up on the show circuit, fi rst in late fall (at the end of hurricane season) then migrating to January. For snow-bound northerners the Florida event dur-ing the wintry months up north is a welcome respite and Florida is itself a dynamo of aviation activity with pilots interested in learning more about this newest aviation segment. More than 10,000 attendees and as many as 15,000 will fl ock to the Sunshine State to catch the action in the most dynamic slice of the aviation pie.

In the 2012 running of Sebring, some of the big-gest names of American aviation organizations are making an appearance. New president Rod Hight-ower will represent EAA as he addresses the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association annual dinner. AOPA president Craig Fuller will hold a hangar-style town meeting and GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce will cohost an industry leaders meeting in cooperation with LAMA. FAA will also bring a contingent of advisory personnel to meet with in-dustry representatives.

Many forums are scheduled, an auction and a wine tasting are planned along with numerous other ac-tivities to fi ll the four days of the show. But the main attraction is the presence of nearly every Light-Sport Aircraft available on the U.S. market. This is the na-tion’s largest collection of these lightest and least cost-ly airplanes featuring the newest technologies.

LOOKING GOOD AND GOOD LOOKINGRecently LAMA staff visited the show site to make

some fi nal decisions about the LAMA Dinner and oth-

er activities. LAMA visitors found new director Jana Filip very ably taking the reins from founding director Bob Woods. Jana has been associated with the show since the beginning, so she already knew the fl avor of the LSA-focused event. Filling the former military offi cer’s shoes wasn’t easy. Bob Wood left the show in fi ne shape but set an aggressive pace for his staff and small army of volunteers. He’ll stay to help the transi-tion and will remain a volunteer, but Sebring is now run by the airport with Jana at its helm.

The show kicks off Thursday, January 19. At the end of the opening day LAMA will hold its fi fth-annual dinner for LSA professionals engaging EAA president Rob Hightower to come speak to the open-ing evening assembly in the AeroShell tent. Some 300 LSA businesspeople will be in attendance, the largest such gathering in the world.

Sponsorships are up. Exhibitors should fi ll every available spot. Forums are plentiful. Meetings help link up various groups. Activities are plentiful. The mood at Sebring is bright, so bring on the show. For those stuck in the snow up north, Florida is a desir-able destination.

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Sadly, the down economy has put a lot of workers

over age 50 in the unenviable position of needing to

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Rick has been interested in aviation for as long as

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dad and reading Popular Mechanics. I was always

daydreaming about building my own airplane.”

“When I signed up for the LSRM course, my

plan was to start my own aviation company and

build experimental light sport aircraft (ELSA)

to resell,” Rick explains. “During my years at

DuPont, I had continued to pursue my interest

in aviation. I had built ultralights and a few kit

aircraft throughout the years. I would buy ultralight

kits and unfi nished projects and complete them:

Kolbs, Fishers, Quicksilvers, Rans, Protech PT-2,

Junior Ace, and a Curtiss Jenny replica. So I knew

I enjoyed building.”

With the new Light Sport Rule, Rick realized that

he could turn his hobby into a business building

aircraft in the ELSA category for customers. (Unlike

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created by the 2004 Light Sport Rule.) With the LSRM

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ELSA kits for resell and, as an added component;

Rick decided he would like to be an LSA Dealer.


Same Path, And realizing a life long dream. . . a career in aviation.

Act II: Switching Act II: Switching

Careers after 50Careers after 50

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Rick had built a few Rans Aircraft in the past

and he liked the company and the quality of their

products. So next he took a trip to Hays, Kansas.

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Rick explains. “But, in the end I was accepted as

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My entire business concept was not possible

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“I feel very lucky. It’s tough times, you know?”

Rick’s successful attempt at a second career in

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