Great Plains Aircraft Supply Company Company type Experimental Aircraft Parts and Plans Industry Experimental Aviation Genre Aircraft Manufacture Founded 1982 Founder Steve and Linda Bennett Headquarters , United States
Products VW Engine Conversions and aircraft plans Website https://www.greatplainsas.com/
Great Plains Aircraft Supply Company is an American aircraft manufacturer of experimental plans based primarily on the Volkswagen air-cooled engine . Great Plains provides VW engine conversions for use in experimental aircraft.[ 1]
Great Plains has been selling and manufacturing conversions of VW engines since circa 1982. Among their offerings is the Great Plains Type 1 Front Drive engine series.[ 2]
Great Plains also helds the rights to the Sonerai series of aircraft designed by John Monnett until 2015, when they were acquired by Sonerai Works LLC , of Franksville, Wisconsin .[ 1] [ 3]
Sonerai IIL
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by
Model name
First flight
Number built
Type
Sonerai 1974
Number built 1400+
4130 Tube and fabric with aluminum wings
Easy Eagle 1 Biplane 2010
Number built 5+
Tube fuselage and wood-and-fabric wings Biplane
References
^ a b Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12 , page 104. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
^ Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16 , pages 258-259. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
^ "SoneraiWorks LLC is Now the Supplier of Plans and Model-Specific Parts for the Sonerai Series of Sport Aircraft," press release, as reprinted December 10, 2014, Kitplanes ,
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