RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Story from EAA's E-Hotline

Hello Piper is selling a name along with backup in the long term Its real competition is Cessna  The Piper has the useful load to offer fat versions at a premium Leather anyone? THety also have a made in Europe (not in China) like BMW Mercedes sticker Peter --- On Fri, 1/22/10, Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com> wrote: From: Richard Williams <rkwill@lewiscounty.com> Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Story from EAA's E-Hotline To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:59 AM   Gary, It is good to hear that Piper is still in the game of aviation. but, will they be able to make it work? Some 120k to 140k for a 'PiperSport' is really stretching the dollar that's still in my pocket after the downturn in the economy in the U.S.A. {:-( Oops, I should not have mentioned I still have a dollar, someone will be sure to try and move it from my pocket to theirs. {:-) R. Williams ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Gary Orpe" <garyo@bak.rr. com> To: <Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:59:29 -0800 Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Story from EAA's E-Hotline >   > > > Piper is going to do it for sure now. That should answer the question about the Sportcurser. It will be called the PiperSport instead. There will be three models; the basic PiperSport ($119,900), training-oriented LT ($129,900) and decked out LTD ($139,900). >   > Anyone going to the show in Florida? To far for me and hard to focus on that right now..... >   > On another subject there is a light out there somewhere in the world, we just keep looking we will find it... >   > Gary O. > "Mitfield" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Sport_ Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Gary Orpe > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:39 PM > To: Sport Aircraft Group >   Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Story from EAA's E-Hotline > >   > > More on the SPORTCRUISER from EAA > > "" > PIPER MAY ACQUIRE MAKER OF SPORTCRUISER S-LSA > Piper Aircraft may soon enter the light-sport aircraft (LSA) market if > various media reports and chatter on Internet message boards are true. > FlightGlobal. com was the first to relay reports from a Czech business daily > newspaper that reported Piper had signed a $30 million deal to acquire Czech > Aircraft Works, which makes the SportCruiser S-LSA. Piper's possible move to > acquire the bankrupt aircraft maker would be in line with the new direction > Piper signaled last May when it was acquired by the Singapore-based > investment firm Imprimus. >

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