Wings, empennage and fuselage appear to be complete.
Evektor Aircrafts web site shows large SportStar chunks completed for the ELSA kit. Unlike the Experimental/Amateur-Builts, which require the major portion to be built by the owner or unpaid volunteers, ELSAs may be completed to any level at the factory. Dunham and I flew the Max IFR that he would show off at Arlington.Ī month later at AirVenture/Oshkosh, the company displayed a SportStar aimed in another direction: a quickbuild Experimental-category LSA kit (ELSA) based on FAA-approved SLSA models. Evektor Aircraft obviously agrees the company is marketing heavily to flight schools with a line of SportStars ranging from a model called Max Basic to the Max IFR. Based on my SportStar flight in 2006 and years as a flight instructor, I had speculated that the airplane would make an excellent trainer. I flew a SportStar three years ago, and the review appeared in the January 2007 issue of KITPLANES.ĭunham, who was on his way to the Northwest Regional Fly-In at Arlington, Washington, in the top-of-the-line, IFR-compliant Evektor SportStar, suggested that he drop by my home airport to fill me in on whats new with the Sport. The SportStar was the first of more than 100 aircraft to qualify under the FAAs new Special Light Sport Aircraft (SLSA) category, and it was among the first to complete the voluntary LAMA audit of ASTM LSA compliance. Josef Bostic and Jim Lee, who headed Urban Air USA, have been joined by John Dunham to market the Czech-built Evektor SportStar as Evektor Aircraft, Inc. It turns out that Sambas manufacturer, Urban Air, in the Czech Republic, is now in bankruptcy, and the Samba wont be available.Ĭontact information for the Samba people led me to Evektor Aircraft, Inc. In 2005, the SportStar was the first FAA-approved Special Light Sport Aircraft.Ĭonfession time: The original plan for this column was a review of the Urban Air Samba, a sleek all-composite low-wing design from the same company that made the Lambada motorglider reviewed here more than a year ago.
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