Got an email back from the organizers Jack Norris and Greg and Crystal Hobb after I inquired about attending/exhibiting. The latter two are owners of Geronimo Experimental Aircraft. This event seems oriented towards LSA and Experimentals.
"We have commitments from Aircraft Spruce & Specialty, Aviator’s Hotline, Lightning Aircraft. Kitfox has also indicated that they will be attending, but have not received a written confirmation. We have several more with keen interest, but the official announcement came out last week. Aviators Hotline, Dan Johnson, Kit Planes Magazine, Aircraft Spruce and the EAA and others have begun advertising this Expo to the nation.
There is no history to the event. This is the first time for it. Greg has been in the Light Sport business since the inception of the Lightning and has a Build center in the Marana area. He goes to every national event and felt the necessity for a western event that could grow and provide a more convenient place where folks out west would fly into. Ergo the selection of the May timeframe, good weather up in the NW and before it gets super hot in AZ. We will be supported by EAA volunteers amongst others, so a lot of folks that would be interested in your product are expected to participate…as volunteers or visiting pilots. Our contact campaign is focused on potential exhibitors and all the EAA Chapters that we felt were in reasonable flying distance (most of the states west of the Mississippi. AZ lends itself for the huge population of pilots to fly in from CA and TX.
Lot’s of LSA and experimental pilots out west who prefer not to fly to FL. Marana is convenient to PHX and TUC airspace, but you don’t have to transverse them to get there
easily. Many of the pilots in of interest to you either don’t like Class B or C…..and can’t easily go through that space without extra planning. That was evident at Copperstate last October with the move to Mesa."
