Popham Microlight Show, England.

[Deck Landing]

Went to this show on the weekend, so i thought some of you SA flyers would like some of the pictures.I would guess that there were about 200 microlights there of which 100+ were trikes.Got some price list's if anybody is interested ?


Air Creation iXess (£22-23K as a quick build kit)


Air Creation Kiss (£23K as a quick build kit)


Airborne


Jabiru Raven


Pegasus Quik 912(£20K)


Pegasus Quik GT450 with 912s (£25K)


Air Creation for when you have snow!

[Bennie Vorster]

I ssssh !

[Arnulf]

Very interested in pricelists.

[The Agent]

Thanks bru, I saw one good engine.

[ZULU1]

Landed in Mud Island today, left your card at home, semd me a pm with your cell no. Any more shows ?? around Bristol...

Ciao Paul

[Griffin]

Air Creation iXess That is putting it mildly

And I thought that ZU-FLY was a bit over the top

[Deck Landing]

Here is a brief list of some prices for aircraft from www.pmaviation.co.uk

Quik Ro/912s/100hp/4s/£25K
Quik Ro/912/80hp/4s/£24K
Quik GT450 Ro/912s/100hp/4s/25K
Quik GT450 Ro/912/80hp/4s/£24K
Blade 912s/£21K
Blade 912/£20K
Quantum 912/£21K

Blade 582 Ro/65hp/2s/£17K
As above kit £15K

Quantum 582/£17K
As above kit £15K

Blade 503 £15K
Above kit £14K

Quantum 503 £15K

The Air Creation stuff is about £20-24K for a fast assembly kit.

[Griffin]

Do you have any pics and info on 3-axis microlights on show?

[Cloud Warrior]

Definitely not "flying garden furniture" any more!

[ZULU1]

I visit Mud Island a lot and if you look on the BMAA web site, there are some good buys in Second hand planes. To ship to SA is relatively inexpensive as more boxes leave the UK empty than full. I would imagine you could get thre trikes easily in a 20foot box. Thye mostly have low hours also...

eish Zulu1

[Arnulf]

Hi,

Thanks for the prices.

Pity that there are no performance figures for the Air Creation trikes. I scratched in their website, but besides the marketing there is not a lot of specs, at least I could not find any.

Zulu1 wrote:

there are some good buys in Second hand planes.

This might be worthwhile investigating a bit closer, especially if a couple of trikes are imported. Into a 20' container, if properly packed, several trikes should fit in. This would result into substantial economics of scale.

Does anybody know if the secondhand trike prices are cyclical? This appears to be the case with secondhand motorbikes in Europe. If the weather turns k@k in autumn, the prices generally dip.

Regards,

Arnulf

[Bennie Vorster]

Evidence of the performance of the Clipper 912 and iXess combination is that it holds the highest international accolade of being the 2002 FAI World and European championship winner in the hands of Samir Elarl. 2002 British Champions Rob Grimwood and Chris Saysell chose the iXess for their 2003 campaign, which resulted in winning the 2003 British Championship, and a Silver medal at the World Microlight Championships. Retaining the iXess for 2004 resulted in another British Championship and the Gold medal at the European Microlight Championships in Portugal (all of the two-seat trike medals were won by iXess wings). Coupled to a specially-lightened Clipper trike fitted with an 80hp Rotax 912 engine, the machine has a calibrated 93mph top speed, around 400ft/min sink rate, and superb handling throughout the speed range. See http://www.bmaa.org/pubsarticle.asp?MagArticleID=66

[Bennie Vorster]

Hi Deck Landing
Does this show have a webb adress or name that we can lookup ?

[Deck Landing]

Sorry dont know of any web site for the Popham show.
More info on the Air Creation's can be found on thier web site
www.aircreation.fr
or
www.flylight.co.uk
A good site for prices of secondhand planes in UK is
www.cfors.co.uk
Or vist the BMAA site where they have planes for sell
www.bmaa.org
Like Zulu 1 said plenty of empty boxes coming back your way after dumping all those C class on us !

[Bennie Vorster]

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