| | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 Member/10,000+ posts! | | Member/10,000+ posts! Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 | Hey Lookie!! A brand new ready to fly two place airplane with a given useful load greater then most of our 150 and 152's. For under $60,000! [ x-airlsa.com]  And only 2.5 Gallons Per hour!  Bill Grants Pass, Oregon | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 | Hey Bill, They are a lot nicer looking in the pictures, than in person....  Next time you see an X-Air, (the one with the engine on top of the wing and sticking out front of the cabin) just grab the wing tip and the give the aircraft a quick shake....... you may change you mind 
Matt Gray
VH-UEG - A150K
VH-UEH - Airedale A109
VH-UYL - Taylorcraft J2
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 Member/10,000+ posts! | | Member/10,000+ posts! Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 | lol Well, since they are manufactured just over the hill here. We just may have to pop on over one nice day and check one out in person!  Bill Grants Pass, Oregon | | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 7,054 Likes: 99 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 7,054 Likes: 99 | Very cool, esp. for the price. Looks like a step up from an ultralight. The low overall weight explains the impressive useful load. The fact that it's got a cloth skin tells me it won't last 42 years sitting outside like my C-150 has. Hard to believe that a brand new plane (85hp) is available for this low price.
Maybe I'll get something like this when the time comes that I can't get a third class medical anymore. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 | Bill, When you say Manufactured, do you mean..."put together" or actually Manufactured from raw material, as my understanding of most X-airs, is that they come form India, or maybe that's just the ones that we get access too Cheers
Matt Gray
VH-UEG - A150K
VH-UEH - Airedale A109
VH-UYL - Taylorcraft J2
aerobat@cessna150pilot.com
A150K@hotmail.com
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 | Bill, When you say Manufactured, do you mean..."put together" or actually Manufactured from raw material, as my understanding of most X-airs, it that they come form India, or maybe that's just the ones that we get access too Cheers Some other info here......looks like they are quoting France in the documentation - hmmmmmmmmmm I'm sure when I first enquired about these around 5 years ago, they were quoting India  http://www.mcp.com.au/xair/infopack/X-Air-Information-Pack.pdf
Matt Gray
VH-UEG - A150K
VH-UEH - Airedale A109
VH-UYL - Taylorcraft J2
aerobat@cessna150pilot.com
A150K@hotmail.com
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 | Bill, When you say Manufactured, do you mean..."put together" or actually Manufactured from raw material, as my understanding of most X-airs, it that they come form India, or maybe that's just the ones that we get access too Cheers Some other info here......looks like they are quoting France in the documentation - hmmmmmmmmmm I'm sure when I first enquired about these around 5 years ago, they were quoting India http://www.mcp.com.au/xair/infopack/X-Air-Information-Pack.pdf Maybe I was right after all Cheers
Matt Gray
VH-UEG - A150K
VH-UEH - Airedale A109
VH-UYL - Taylorcraft J2
aerobat@cessna150pilot.com
A150K@hotmail.com
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 Member/10,000+ posts! | | Member/10,000+ posts! Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 | Bill, When you say Manufactured, do you mean..."put together" or actually Manufactured from raw material, as my understanding of most X-airs, is that they come form India, or maybe that's just the ones that we get access too Cheers All the web page says is that the factory is in Bend Oregon..................HMMMMMMMMMM? Does that mean built there? Or just assembled there? I dunno.  Bill Grants Pass, Oregon | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,465 Likes: 23 | Bill, When you say Manufactured, do you mean..."put together" or actually Manufactured from raw material, as my understanding of most X-airs, is that they come form India, or maybe that's just the ones that we get access too Cheers All the web page says is that the factory is in Bend Oregon..................HMMMMMMMMMM? Does that mean built there? Or just assembled there? I dunno. Bill Grants Pass, Oregon Maybe under license or something....perhaps...that said, when you go over there, I'd really like to know one way of the other, just to get my head right if nothing else 
Matt Gray
VH-UEG - A150K
VH-UEH - Airedale A109
VH-UYL - Taylorcraft J2
aerobat@cessna150pilot.com
A150K@hotmail.com
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,198 Likes: 1186 Member/15,000 posts | | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,198 Likes: 1186 | Bill,
It would still be interesting to here you evaluation of one when you go see it in real life.
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