New Flight Design Light Sport CTLSI

[Sonoma Flight Center]

We have a Brand New Flight Design CTLSi for Sale located at our West Coast dealer, KSTS Santa Rosa CA. The reviews on the CTLSi have been great, both AOPA and Plane and Pilot have written about the plane in recent articles.
Now you can have one immediately. It is fully assembled and ready to fly away. Includes a thorough check out.
Plane comes with a three year Full Warranty the latest avionics, extra safety equipment, BRS, fire extinguisher, LED strobes, CO detector, Tundra Tires,
With the BRS parachute, this is one of the safest airplanes you can fly! Plus this airplane features the latest Rotax fuel injected 912IS engine.
Normal delivery is about 6 months so this is a way to have one right away. Avoid the price increase for airplanes ordered in 2013.
Call Ron Cassero 707 523-2800
Start having fun now! Call for details and photos

 

[supernovae]

I want one, but my bank account doesn't agree. Also, sad face about price increases I was actually hoping sport planes and could hit a sweet spot and drive down costs a bit..)

 

[jnmeade]

I'm waiting for:
1) Win the Lotto
2) A turbocharged injected engine

In that order, sadly.

 

[pigpenracing]

Why would you need a turbo on a lightsport? If it had a turbo it probably wouldn't be lightsport.

 

[Dav8or]

Why would you need a turbo on a lightsport? If it had a turbo it probably wouldn't be lightsport.

There are no requirements to be NA for light sport IIRC. The regs say the plane must meet the 120kt speed limit at sea level, so in theory, a LSA climbing up 17,500 with plenty of HP could potentially go a whole lot faster than 120kts. In addition of course, high DA ops could be more easily performed.

The problem with the turbo LSA would be the weight limitations. As it is, LSAs are having trouble maintaining good useful loads with the engines they have and adding the extra weight to the engine might just relegate the plane to a practical single seater. Also, the turbo would burn more fuel, so either shorter range, or added fuel and once again, less useful load. Then there's cost. Turbos always cost more and people are already groaning at the price tags now.

Still, a single seat, turbo normalized, retractable amphibian would be a sweet little adventure ride!

 

[EppyGA]

There are no requirements to be NA for light sport IIRC. The regs say the plane must meet the 120kt speed limit at sea level, so in theory, a LSA climbing up 17,500 with plenty of HP could potentially go a whole lot faster than 120kts. In addition of course, high DA ops could be more easily performed.

The problem with the turbo LSA would be the weight limitations. As it is, LSAs are having trouble maintaining good useful loads with the engines they have and adding the extra weight to the engine might just relegate the plane to a practical single seater. Also, the turbo would burn more fuel, so either shorter range, or added fuel and once again, less useful load. Then there's cost. Turbos always cost more and people are already groaning at the price tags now.

Still, a single seat, turbo normalized, retractable amphibian would be a sweet little adventure ride!

http://www.rotaxservice.com/rotax_engines/rotax_914ULs.htm

Looks like a 20lb difference over the 912