SPLOG ByDanJohnson: SportRider Wins SLSA Approval

The newest Light-Sport Aircraft to earn its SLSA certificate is the SportRider from Italy, sold by AveoUSA, maker of instruments and headsets.

After a short lull in new approvals, the first to announce winning FAA’s blessing after AirVenture Oshkosh 2005 is AveoUSA SportRider. Designed by Jaro Dostal, the same man who created the comfortable SkyBoy, SportRider is built by Gryf Air of the Czech Republic and handled by FlyItalia. Sport Rider is sold in America by Texas-based AveoUSA. Following EAA’s big show this year, I got several emails from pilots asking about this handsome aircraft with its flowing lines and 46-inch-wide cockpit. You can see my early report in the August 2005 Kitplanes magazine and I hope to do a pilot report this fall, perhaps on one of the EAA Sport Pilot Tours where you can also go for a demo flight.

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Ron Bearer of Space Coast Aviation Services takes time out at Sun N Fun 2008 to talk to the Lightsport and Ultralight Flyer about the MD3 Rider light sport aircraft.

Video created by new Flyitalia chief of production Antonio Bencini , named "A day flying on my Flyitalia 's MD3 rider on the italians alps".

Finally we tested positive loads on wing, increasing loads till structural crash. This test approved loads increasing adequate increasiong of maximum take-off weight above 600 kg. Altough of that, critical part will be for next serial production reinforced.