The 318-page document details the FAA’s proposed changes to rules regarding the manufacture, certification, operation, maintenance, and alteration of light sport aircraft (LSA).

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on FAA certification of light sport and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The second can be found here. A […] ...

The FAA created the LSA category to establish rules for the manufacture, certification, operation and maintenance of light-sport aircraft such as airplanes, gliders, balloons, powered parachutes ...

Twenty-one years ago, the FAA released a regulation often called sport pilot/light sport aircraft. Announced at EAA AirVenture 2004, this ruleset dramatically altered the way aircraft earned ...

In 2004, the FAA introduced the "Light-sport aircraft" category. The Ultralight category was introduced in the 80's. So this is not the forst new category since 1940. Aermaco October 24, 2024 06: ...

The FAA has granted a light-sport aircraft airworthiness exemption to Pipistrel’s two-seat, high-wing Velis Electro, which allows U.S. flight schools to operate the electric aircraft for flight ...

The FAA has released a 300-page unpublished version of a proposed rule that would amend and modernize its approach to regulating light-sport aircraft (LSA) to account for new technologies and use ...