Combined Results, All Categories, includes fully-built, kitbuilt, ELSA (experimental light sport aircraft), and also portrays how the FAA’s 1990s-era primary category touches this segment.

The company has been on a recent roll with its A5, an amphibious two-seat aircraft with folding wings. The Federal Aviation Administration categorises A5s as light sport aircraft.

The FAA created the LSA category to establish rules for the manufacture, certification, operation and maintenance of light-sport aircraft such as airplanes, gliders, balloons, powered parachutes ...

One reason for the new rule is advances in avionics that allow the FAA to require that light sport helicopters be equipped with fly-by-wire systems that make the craft easier to fly even in the ...

This classic Ercoupe, priced at just $29,000, also qualifies under FAA light sport aircraft (LSA) rules, making it flyable by sport pilots.

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