Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Cessna SkyCatcher completes ASTM complia...

Yes Textron, sorry.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Orpe" <garyo@...> wrote:
>
> Abid,
>
> I think you meant to say Textron, right?
>
>
> Gary O.
> N181RL
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Abid Farooqui
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:44 PM
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Cessna SkyCatcher completes
> ASTM complia...
>
>
>
>
> No Teledyne owns both Cessna and Lycoming.
> Abid
> http://www.apollo- <http://www.apollo-fox.com> fox.com
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@ <mailto:Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@> wrote:
> >
> > Continental owns Cessna, hence the real reason they didn't build a plane
>
> > with a "useful" useful load via a Rotax 912 and hence the reason you
> > won't see a Lycoming on it either.
> >
> > Helen
> >
> > dan wrote:
> > > In addition to the Skycatcher's "is it finally fixed / can we really
> trust it now" spin issue is whether they will be offering Lycoming's soon
> to be certified IO-233 LSA engine in it. By the time Cessna finally offers
> the Skycatcher for sale ( late 2009 ) it won't be that much longer that
> the Lycoming engine becomes certified ( per Lycoming 1st Quarter of 2010
> ).
> > >
> > > It would look awfully hypocritical of Lycoming to be pushing other LSA
> manufacturers to buy their LSA engine while their own sister company
> Cessna only offers a competitors engine, the Continental O-200 in the
> Skycatcher. Does this mean the first couple of months production of
> Skycatchers will have Continentals and then post 1st quarter 2010 the rest
> will have Lycomings ?
> > >
> > > At best it looks to be an example of poor timing and planning on
> Cessna's part.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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