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Glasair Aviation Blog
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Glasair Aviation Current Events and News
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Home is where the hangar is…
Utah Valley’s Daily Herald recently published the following story about James Robinson and his Glasair III. After finishing up a quick lunch, James Robinson, of Spanish Fork, hands his plate across the kitchen counter to his wife, Mareen, then makes his way across the living room and out the front door to return to work [...]
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Steve Wood sets over 100 FAI records in his Glastar N600FY “Goofy”
Steve Wood is the first British aviator ever to set more than 100 FAI world records in any aviation category. Even more impressive, he set the records in his GlaStar. N600FY (“Goofy”) will go down in aviation history as being the first US registered homebuilt airplane ever to have set 100 FAI World records. Click [...]
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Roadable Sportsman Flies into Oshkosh Airventure
Trey Johnson, who recently completed his Sportsman in our Two Weeks to Taxi program, has successfully modified it into a roadable aircraft. As Trey says, “Fly above the traffic, drive through the weather.” Check out planedriven.com for more information.
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Glasair Aviation’s Mikael Via introduces the new turbocharged, carbon-fiber-bodied Sportsman TC at Oshkosh 2010.
The turbocarbon Sportsman was also written about in Airventure’s daily newspaper. Click here for the story.
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Glasair Elevates to New Heights with its New Sportsman TC
Glasair Elevates to New Heights with its New Sportsman TC Upon arrival at Oshkosh, Glasair Aviation introduced the newest member of their composite piston aircraft family: the Sportsman TC, which merges the proven Sportsman high utility aircraft with a state-of-the-art turbo-normalized engine and advanced carbon-fiber materials. Advanced design and engineering changes, combined with the new [...]
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Smiley Creek Fly-In 2010
Sportsman owners Alan and Anne Negrin attended this year’s Smiley Creek Fly-In. Here’s some of Alan’s thoughts on the weekend. Smiley Creek, Idaho (U87) 6/24-27/2010 Smiley Creek is not a back country air strip, but it is a very high altitude one at 7160 MSL. It is one of four the state of Idaho maintains [...]
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Americana Adventure – GlaStar Style
My first summer Annual Pilgrimage (VFR) from west of Houston (1XA7) to just north of Atlantic City, NJ (Miller Airpark, MJX) occurred on June 23-24th, 2010. It is the longest trip I’ve made in N1229W (1318 miles after diverting for some nasty thunderstorms) for a total flight time of 11.3 hrs and 4 stops…. 2 [...]
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Sportsman First Flight in Australia – Another Beauty!
First flight, 20/6/2010. Sportsman TD, VH-ZIF, IO 390, Hartzell 74 inch blended airfoil. Proud owner and test pilot, Ian Orrman (just imagine a grin from ear to ear). Friday 18/6/2010 – successfully completed C of A inspection allowing Phase 1 test flying. Saturday 19/6/2010 – Went for a 1 hour refresher flight in Sportsman VH [...]
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Thoughts on the Evolution of Sport Aviation
Scott Taylor, Glasair Aviation’s Operations Manager, was recently interviewed at our booth during the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association Convention in Dayton Ohio. By the way, according to many reports, the Sportsman was the hit of the convention!
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Another Sportsman Takes to the Skies… Down Under.
Tim Fitzgerald and Darren Walmsley recently completed their Sportsman. In addition to ending up with a gorgeous aircraft, they kept a detailed log of their build — Tim and Darren Aussie Web Site. Here’s an excerpt: “We started building a Glasair Sportsman 2 + 2 in Adelaide, South Australia in our hanger at Gawler. (SERIAL [...]
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