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 […] ...

On Feb. 5, 2002, the FAA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for both a Sport Pilot License and a Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) category. There was little negative response, and U.S.

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 ...

Anticipating early approval, manufacturers of composite aircraft were lining up in early 2003 to launch lightweight recreational flying machines that conformed to proposed rules for the U.S. Federal ...

Terrafugia announced earlier this week that its “Transition” flying car has received an FAA Special Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) airworthiness certificate. The certification clears the two-seat ...

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The FAA has released a 300-page unpublished version of a proposed rule that would amend and modernize its approach to regulating light-sport aircraft (LSA) to account for new technologies and use ...