- Home
- Past Issues
- Magazines & Buyers Guides
- Powered Sport Flying Magazine
- World Directory of Leisure Aviation
- World Directory of Free-Flight
- Subscriptions
- This is where you can learn more about PSF Magazine and the World Directories. The last link is where you can order both the magazine and the guides. Order more than one item together and save!
- Advertising
- Powered Sport Flying Magazine is THE place to reach those flying or wanting to fly ultralights, experimental, and light sport aircraft. Download our media kit to learn how you can get your message in front of them today!
- Contact
- News
Piper
by James Lawrence
Light-Sport Chronicles: 50 Years To Solo
It’s the Babe Ruth of airplanes, the home-run standard against which we measure and judge all other airplanes whose company we’ll ever have the pleasure to keep. I don’t mean the standards of McGuire or Bonds or even Roger Maris. There’s only one Babe. There will ever be only one Piper Cub J3. That it ...
US Sport Aircraft Takes Over from Piper
IFirst off, a correction: Though I took the proposed renaming of PiperSport to “SuperCruiser” directly from a Czech Sport Aircraft (CSA) news release, the new name did not stick. It’ll be the SportCruiser as it was before Piper assumed worldwide distribution. Widely reported in aviation media, Piper abruptly ended their almost-year-long relationship with manufacturer CSA in what ...
Dan Johnson, ByDanJohnson.com (2/1/11)
Dan Johnson joins us to talk about more of the LSA news that came out of the Sebring Expo. Of course some of the biggest news came just before the event with Piper saying that they were splitting with Czech Sport Aircraft. Dan talks about what happened, what is going on, and what Piper may be doing in the future. He also talks about the LSA barnstorming tour some LSA manufactures went on in Florida after the Sebring event.
PiperSport: Czech Sport Aircraft’s Side of the Story
After a year of having been marketed as the PiperSport in co-operation with Piper Aircraft Inc; by mutual agreement, Czech Sport Aircraft’s SportCruiser (ICAO type CRUZ) is to once again be independently distributed. CSA and Piper have agreed to end the relationship that has been in place for the past year (announced formally at Sebring ...
PiperSport Dealers Forming Association
In a conference call Jan. 13, the 13 PiperSport dealers in the United States agreed to form the U.S. SportCruiser Dealers Association, using the previous name of the Rotax-powered aircraft before Czech Sport Aircraft and Piper Aircraft joined forces in January 2010, said Tom Ellery of San Diego Sport Flyers. He was involved in the ...
Piper Drops Czech Sport Aircraft and PiperSport
In stunning news just before the Sebring LSA Expo starts, Piper Aircraft announced they will be terminating their business relationship with Czech Sport Aircraft, the Czech republic-based manufacturer of the PiperSport (previously known as the SportCruiser from initial developer Czech Aircraft Works). “After a year working with Czech Sport Aircraft, Piper determined that it is in our company’s ...
Piper Tells PiperSport Maker: “CzechMate!”
In a tersely worded and OMG-style announcement, Piper Aircraft today said today it “will terminate its business relationship with Czech Republic-based Czech Sport Aircraft to market that company’s Light Sport Aircraft, citing differences in business philosophies.” Piper’s CEO Geoffrey Berger said, “After a year working with Czech Sport Aircraft, Piper determined that it is in ...
Piper to Terminate Pipersport Distributor Business Relationship
Vero Beach, Fla., Jan. 12, 2011 – Piper Aircraft Inc. will terminate its business relationship with Czech Republic-based Czech Sport Aircraft to market that company’s Light Sport Aircraft, citing differences in business philosophies. “After a year working with Czech Sport Aircraft, Piper determined that it is in our company’s best long-term interests to discontinue the ...
Final 2010 Market Report
Dan Johnson’s periodic LSA market share report(compiled by Jan Fridrich of the Czech LAA) reveals some interesting trends. *** For those who haven’t seen these snapshots of the U.S. LSA market before, Dan focuses on FAA registrations, not sales quotes from manufacturers. While this indicator may lag sales figures, over time it gives a more accurate view of ...
Strong Survive, Even Thrive in Another Slow Year
Accompanying this article is our customary chart showing market share of the entire fleet of LSA. I’ve received a few comments over recent months that we should emphasize current-period results. Market share for many products, computers, for example, are given as total market share (“Windows has 90% of the market.”). *** In truth, I have ...