Thread: Looking for a plane

I started flying with about five years ago learning on a RANS pusher type Airaile. This gave me an ultralight permit here in Canada. What a surprise when I moved over to a regular trike: another RANS but this time it was a Coyote. My flying buddy talked me into buying into a Searey which we flew for about a year but I never soloed in. Great fun on the water and land. Finally I bought my very own Tecnam Echo but it is also gone now. During all this time I got my private pilot license in case I ever wanted to own a heavier plane but I am stuck on the LSA/Ultralights for their sheer flying fun, freedom, short and muddy field landings and places that the conventionals would not venture here in mountainous and coastal British Columbia.

I am interested in a CT since they appear to have about the same performance as the Tecnam. Our little grassy field is a mere 1000' and I never had any trouble getting in or out even over the cables. However, am a little concerned over the durability of the landing gear because without what could you really have: just a sliding mass of metal broken prop and composite. And for the sport where I live many of the more interesting destinations like a hot spring with several tubs and pools at different tempuratures in a remote part of our Province on a friendly reservation has a rather rough landing field.

So I am here to learn a bit more about your great planes and maybe even buy one preferably used but I have not ruled out a new one. No agent here in Canada that I know of. So if any of you aviators out there know of a CT for sale that has not been advertized and not more than half TBO let me know. Otherwise I will probably sojourn down to California this fall to look at a new one.

Happy Landings, Greg

HI Greg

Welcome to the forum.

You will find here a lot of information regarding not only the CT but also on the Rotax engine and almost everything on a light/ ultralight planes.

Regarding the 'agent' in Canada .There IS a new Canadian distributor that is located in Collingwood, Ontario
Please contact Louis Cunningham at Airmotive Technologies Group Inc. Phone: 705-444-5552

Also , the former distributor : EWS Aviation has a couple a used CT for sale.....www.ews.ca he is in Invermere BC..so, not that far from you.., Regarding, 'shopping' in California this fall....keep in mind that the CT in the USA is a LSA and you can NOT import a used one to register it as an AULA (Advanced Ultra Light Aeroplane) in Canada . Even a new one from the US might not be 'registrable' in Canada.

cheers
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hi Greg,

I bought a new ctsw in may 08, and have loved it ever since. In terms of landing gear,the ct is very much up to the standard that u would expect, the fields we land in here in N. Ireland aren't that big!!the field i fly out off is 250m and is perched right on top of a hill and it run's 18-36 so can be quite challenging in a crosswind as the prevailing winds are mostly southwesterly, oh i for got to mention about the big oak trees that are firmly planted about 80m from the threshold!!! on 18. there a good 50-60 foot high. So i currently have about 40hrs on the ct and find it can handle my strip no problem at all!! so that the plunge!! u will not regret it. oh by the way i think you guys can have a heavy duty landing gear fitted in, we have no such lux here in the uk, but as i said b4 the landing gear is 100%.

regards neil