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Personal Sport Aviation Comes of Age: Aeromarine Merlin

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THERE’S SOMETHING almost ironic about how the most affordable sport aircraft on today’s market traces its lineage to the Czech Republic, a country that wasn’t even on most pilots’ radar screens twenty years ago. Yet the Aeromarine Merlin Light Sport Aircraft represents perhaps one of the best answers to the age-old aviation question: “How do I get in the air without breaking the bank?” There Merlin’s story begins in the workshops of Czech Aircraft Works, where the original design took shape, in the former Soviet era Let a.s. factory in Kunovice, Czech Republic. When Chip Erwin, a serial aviation entrepreneur with four decades of experience bringing affordable aircraft to market, encountered this Czech-designed single-seater, he recognized something special. Excerpted from Kitplanes. Read more here

Weighing and Flying Aeromarine-LSA’s Part 103 Merlin Lite — Does It Make Weight?

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The most popular article of this crazy year — when people have been visiting in record numbers — was about Aeromarine-LSA‘s Merlin Lite. Tens of thousands of you devoured this article within days of it being posted. The word sensational is vastly overused in modern American society but in this case the word fits the intense interest in Merlin Lite. For the back story, see the article in this link.

Despite obvious enthusiasm for this new Part 103 entry, many of you were skeptical. No wonder. An all-metal, fully enclosed aircraft does not closely resemble many of the other Part 103 aircraft that are selling briskly over the last few years. If you were among the doubters this post — and the video below — may serve to allay one of your concerns. Weighing Merlin Lite Developer Chip Erwin came to 2020’s Midwest LSA Expo prepared to tackle the hesitation in pilot’s acceptance of Merlin Lite as a legitimate Part 103.

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