G2 and G3 Main Landing Gear from Advanced Aero
Advanced Aero Components has the first new prototype main landing gear of the G2 and G3 aircraft.
The company made some major upgrades to this...
Glasair II RG, N131CB: Incident occurred December 30, 2016 in Arlington, WA
Aircraft experienced electrical failure and made forced landing off airport in Arlington, Washington
A single-engine plane landed without its gear fully extended near Arlington Municipal...
Glasair Announces Two Weeks to Taxi Sportsman 2012 Price Increase of $9,000. Savings Offered.
Glasair has announced a price increase for the TWTT Sportsman, but is offering savings on orders placed by November 30.
Due to increasing parts and...
First Flight: Rocky Morrison’s Sportsman
It happened! After nine+ years of building, an engine swap, twice complete rewire, many builder re-dos, marriage, moving, birth of now twin 6-year-old daughters...
Whole-Plane Parachute System Available For Sportsman Aircraft
Glasair Aviation, in partnership with BRS Aerospace, now offers whole-plane parachute recovery systems for the company's popular Sportsman line of aircraft.
Parachute recovery systems are...
TWTT Sportsman: What Kind of a Job Are They Doing?
I recently got to do a pre-first flight inspection on a Sportsman right out of the 2-Weeks-To-Taxi (TWTT) program. It belongs to Richard Eastman,...
Scott Alperin’s TWTT Sportsman
Another successful Sportsman homecoming from the TWTT program. Scott Alperin writes:
I completed construction of the Glasair Sportsman on November 1, 2016 in the Two...
Wolfgang Drahanowski’s GlaStar Flies
After 11 1/2 years of building time, one more Glastar experimental aircraft (OE-VWD #5605) joined the flying fleet on Sunday, January 16 2011, at...
Glasair III Best Composite at Sun ‘n Fun 2015
I flew in to Sun ‘n Fun last week and was awarded “Best Composite Homebuilt.” I was hoping for a Grand Champion but a...
Man Survives Second Plane Crash
By Karen Aho - Anchorage Daily News Reporter
Republished with permission
Down in Alaska - two slightly injured - saved by GlaStar cage
I learned about flying from...