The future of sport aviation has arrived, but what does it mean to you? After more than a decade of work on them, the FAA has finally published the Sport Pilot and Light Sport Aircraft rules.

Learning to fly light sport aircraft—and those falling within the class called ultralights or microlights in Europe—opens up an affordable world of flying.

The Federal Aviation Admin.'s Light-Sport Aircraft designation promotes growth in the manufacture of composite recreational aircraft.

[Rene] is in South Africa, so the answer is, ‘nothing’. If a few American pilots decide to build one of these, that’ll fly too; these are instruments designed for non-type-certified aircraft.

Light sport pilots are limited to flying aircraft with no more than two seats and a maximum weight of 1,320 pounds. There are many aircraft that fall into the light sport aircraft category both ...

FLYING Finance and Bristell Aircraft have announced a new partnership designed to streamline the aircraft purchasing process ...

The SubSonex is a single-seat, single-engine turbine aircraft produced by Sonex Aircraft as a kit plane. It is powered by a Czech-built PBS TJ-100 turbojet engine mounted above the aft fuselage, ...

Today, Tecnam is the world’s second largest General Aviation and Light Sport Aircraft producer. With a global fleet of over 7000 aircraft and 100 Tecnam Support centers.

By expanding aircraft certification to include eVTOLs, the MOSAIC Rules will create more opportunities for individuals to obtain a light-sport repairman certificate in these categories, driving ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on FAA certification of light sport and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The first can be found here. The […] ...

Why SilverLight? That Florida builder also makes the American Ranger gyroplane series and introduced their folding-wing Recon ...