Take-off
Aviation news from around the world – for the latest visit www.flyer.co.uk
Flylight’s Skyranger Nynja: £36k ready to fly Above The new ready-to-fly Skyranger Nynja Inset Paul Dewhurst was a member of the winning Team GB at the World Air Games, seen on the right next to Dave Broom and Rees Keene
Flylight Airsports is the UK’s newest aircraft manufacturer. The Sywell-based company is now offering the Skyranger Nynja and Swift fixed-wing microlights as ready to fly aircraft from £36,000 plus VAT. Flylight recently gained A8-1 manufacturing approval from the UK CAA for factory-built aircraft. It will offer the Nynja and the simpler Swift model as ready-to-fly aircraft. The Swift has fabric surfaces on the fuselage while the Nynja has a composite skin. Flylight will continue to offer kits for pilots wanting to build their own. Flylight has been in business since
1995 supplying microlight aircraft and offering microlight flight training. The company became dealers for the French Best Off Skyranger kitplane series in 2003 and took on the design and manufacturing in late 2016. The aircraft pictured above, Skyranger Nynja G-CLOU, is the 300th example of the Skyranger family in the UK and the first ready-to-fly example, built at Flylight Airsports’ manufacturing facility. The ready to fly Nynja and Swift meet the dual aims of complying with the current microlight definition, but are capable of moving to a higher weight limit with some simple changes to take advantage of the
Air League funded
Sportstar to UK
The Air League has been awarded
The Evektor Sportstar SLM
funding from the Department for
microlight is to be imported
Transport to support its Soaring to
into the UK by Ascent
Success and National Youth Plane
Industries, also the UK agent
Building initiatives, both of which
for EuroFox aircraft. Ascent
seek to involve young people in
will offer factory-built aircraft
aviation. Full story:
from its Marden, Kent HQ.
https://bit.ly/newsAirLeague
www.sportstaraviation.co.uk
6 | FLYER | summer 2020
proposed new 600kg weight category. “Flylight would like to thank the helpful staff at CAA for making the process less painful than feared, and the BMAA for assisting to get the first Permit issued in the midst of COVID-19 complications,” said Paul Dewhurst, director at Flylight. “The order books are already healthy with a mixture of flying school and private orders.” Flylight also manufactures a range of lightweight, single-seat, flexwing microlights and SSDRs.