Special Light-Sport Aircraft

EAA's Listing of Special-LSA Airplanes
For the following airplanes, EAA has received a copy of the airworthiness certificate (FAA form 8130-7) verifying that the company has received at least one Special-Light Sport Aircraft (SLSA) airworthiness certificate.

Airplanes

·          Aeropro CZ EuroFox

·          Aerosport Ltd. Breezer (flight review available)

·          Aerosport Ltd. C42 Ikarus (flight review available)

·          Aerostar Festival

·          Aircraft Manufacturing & Development CH601XL (flight review available)

·          American Legend AL3C-100 Cub

·          B&F Technik Vertriebs FK-9 Mark IV

·          Czech Aircraft Works CH-601-XL

·          Czech Aircraft Works Mermaid

·          Czech Aircraft Works Parrot

·          Czech Aircraft Works Sport Cruiser

·          Evektor Sportstar

·          Fantasy Air Allegro

·          Flight Design CT

·          GRYF Aircraft Spol MD 3 Rider

·          Indus Aviation T211 Thorpedo

·          Iniziative Industriali Italiane Sky Arrow 600 Sport

·          Jabiru USA Sport Aircraft J170-SP

·          Jabiru USA Sport Aircraft J250-SP

·          JIHLAVAN Airplanes KP-5 Kappa

·          Just Aircraft Highlander

·          RANS S-7LS

·          Remos Aircraft G-3

·          Storm Aircraft Rally LSA

·          Taylorcraft AvationTaylor Sport

·          Tecnam Bravo

·          Tecnam Echo Super

·          Tecnam Sierra

·          TL Ultralight Sting Sport (flight review available)

·          Zlin Savage

Powered Parachutes
(No S-LSAs have been approved at this time)

Weight Shift Control

Glider
(No S-LSAs have been approved at this time)

Balloon
(No S-LSAs have been approved at this time)

Lighter Than Air
(No S-LSAs have been approved at this time)

If you are manufacturer or dealer and would like your S-LSA included, send a copy of your S-LSA airworthiness certificate to:

EAA Aviation Services
PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
info@eaa.org

What is a Special Light-Sport Aircraft
A special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) is a factory-built, ready-to-fly aircraft designed and construction accordance with the ASTM consensus standards for light-sport aircraft (LSA).

In addition to recreational flying, S-LSA can be rented and used for flight instruction. They must be maintained and inspected by a certification repairman with an LSA maintenance rating, a standard FAA aircraft maintenance rating, known as an airframe and powerplant (A&P) rating, or at an FAA authorized repair station. Pilots can perform preventive maintenance on S-LSA.

Private owners of these aircraft may change an S-LSA’s airworthiness certificate to experimental light-sport aircraft status (E-LSA). This allows the owner to perform the annual condition inspection after attending a 16-hour course to obtain a light-sport aircraft repairman’s certificate with an inspection rating. However, once an S-LSA is certificated as an E-LSA, it can no longer be used for rental or commercial flight training.

A foreign aircraft sold in the United States as S-LSA must be eligible to operate in its country of origin, which must have a bi-lateral agreement with the FAA (See the bilateral agreements)

Why Consensus Standards?
 The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 mandated that federal agencies “shall use technical standards that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies” as opposed to rules established by the government. The United States Congress, in a 1996 Federal Law (Public Law 104), further stated, “Federal agencies shall consult with private sector consensus bodies when such participation is in the public interest….”

Accordingly, the FAA mandated in the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft rule, that consensus standards be developed to govern the production of light-sport aircraft (LSA). At the suggestion of EAA, the FAA engaged ASTM International to assist the light-sport aircraft community in the development of those standards.

For more information about the ASTM standards for light-sport aircraft, visit www.astm.org and click on “Technical Committees” and search for “Light-Sport Aircraft" (Committee F-37), or read the following articles: