GlaStar & Sportsman

Q. Why metal wings from a company with so much experience with composites? A. The design objective's drove this decision, primarily the low-cost objective, composite's...

The brand-new Jump-Start wing option and an upgrade to the already popular Jump-Start fuselage option have kept GlaStar® interest and sales high in the...

Ken Johnson replaced the magnetos on his Oshkosh Grand Champion Glasair III with a dual electronic ignition system from Klaus Savier's Lightspeed Engineering. The...

From the "No Harm in Double Checking" File comes a report on the peel strength of the DBM cloth used in the GlaStar fuselage...

Written by Tom Richardi, an A&P and a licensed propeller technician who built the Propulsion Technologies, Inc., GlaStar, N11KN. I was working in the shop one...

I've got about 58 hours on my Sportsman diesel now and I really like it. My son and I flew it from the Las...

Here are a few postcards from Trevor Berg and his Sportsman on floats. These are some of my favourite because they are all taken on...

After having a 66-gallon Turtlepac ferry bladder installed (which allows a single stop on the southern tip of Greenland or other alternates) in the back and testing its functioning, we were fully ready, including appropriate insurance coverage and the requested permits from the UK, Denmark (for Greenland) and Canada.

This page was originally published on the Sensenich website. An archived version can also be found here. Aircraft Engine Standard Climb Cruise Weight (lb) Note* Glasair I TD,FT,RG Lycoming O-320 70CM()S16-0-79 70CM()S16-0-77 70CM()S16-0-81 38.75  8 / 13 Glasair II...

Assembly of the prototype GlaStar is proceeding smoothly and meeting our design goals and expectations. Each day we are more convinced that is going...