March 22, 2011 See Flight Design at Sun ‘n Fun 2011 — Southeast Exhibit Area — space #21

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Flight Design USA to Choose New Sales Partner for Southeastern U.S.

South Woodstock, CONNECTICUT / March 22, 2011 — As part of its growing dealer network, Flight Design is pleased to elevate Premier One Aviation as its Associate Dealer in Miami serving south Florida and the Caribbean. Importer Flight Design USA also announced it will choose additional sales representation covering the remainder of Florida and the southeastern USA.

Premier One Aviation (http://www.premier1aviation.com/) operates from the Tamiami Airport in Miami, Florida. The company pursues sales of Flight Design aircraft and operates an active Flight Design Pilot Center flight school using three CTLS aircraft on the line and three highly qualified instructors. Premier One Aviation offers instruction for the Sport Pilot and Private Pilot FAA certificates as well as Instrument and Transition training. They have started to develop an international training expertise with several German students and are one of the few destination flight schools geared to rapid training in a professional setting. Additionally to assure proper maintenance, the Miami company has undergone recent Rotax training and can also provide authorized Rotax engine maintenance to other aircraft owners.

“Premier One Aviation offers a unique flight instruction payment program,” noted Tom Peghiny, president of importer Flight Design USA. “With only $250 down, payments range from about $100 to $200 per month, paced by the number of lessons per week a student can afford. Premier One Aviation makes learning to fly easier in several ways:  they have some excellent instructors with impressive credentials; they use new, modern and easy-to-fly Flight Design CT aircraft and their unique payment program makes the expense affordable for just about anyone.”

Flight Design USA also announced its plans to choose a new dealer for the company in the southeast U.S. region while Premier One Aviation concentrates on south Florida and the Caribbean Island nations. To facilitate this decision, Flight Design will bring top officials from Flight Design USA and manufacturer Flight Design GmbH in Germany to Sun ‘n Fun 2011.

“We’re pleased to have top-flight professionals like Premier One Aviation working with us in the sale of Flight Design aircraft,” stated John Gilmore, national sales manager for Flight Design USA. “We are also seeking new representatives in the southeastern USA. For businesses interested in working with the longtime leader in LSA sales, we’ll have all our key company people at Sun ‘n Fun available for discussions.”

Flight Design USA is the U.S. importer of the Flight Design CT and MC series of Light-Sport Aircraft from Germany. Delivering more than 330 Special Light-Sport Aircraft to customers through its network of distributors and dealers Flight Design USA has led the field since the first LSA approval in 2005. The carbon fiber CT series of aircraft are the best-selling LSA in America by a wide margin augmented by the addition of the all-metal MC series in 2010. Globally, more than 1,700 Flight Design aircraft are in service around the globe with three CTs having recently flown around the world.

For more information or to find the closest Flight Design dealer, go to:  main manufacturer website www.flightdesign.com, or Flight Design USA website www.flightdesignusa.com.

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FLIGHT DESIGN CONTACT:  John Gilmore, national sales manager of Flight Design USA at 612-759-2252 (email: jgilmore@flightdesignusa.com) or Flight Design USA in Connecticut at 860-963-7272

CTLS IN-FLIGHT & DETAIL PHOTOS — Dozens of high-resolution photos of the CTLS can be found at the company’s website at:

http://FlightDesignUSA.com/media/

Photos can be can be viewed at screen resolution and downloaded as 5-10 MB JPEGs. All professionally shot photos are “Courtesy of Flight Design USA” and several were composed for text overlay by art directors.

Police Join Fire Departments to Use Popular LSA

South Woodstock, CONNECTICUT / February 28, 2011 — Tulare County is situated about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles near California’s Sequoia National Forest. Facing the same budget constraints as many localities, Tulare County Sheriff Department Captain David Williams chose a Light-Sport Aircraft to perform patrol duties. He ordered a Flight Design CTLS.

According to David Castellon writing for the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper, Tulare County Sheriff’s officials would normally have sought a new helicopter but the budget didn’t allow for the higher expense. “A helicopter can cost… a lot of money, particularly [difficult] in these tough economic times,” explained Captain Williams. Instead, the department will buy the CTLS and most of the airplane’s cost will be covered by Homeland Security.

After interviewing the sheriff Castellon wrote, “While the plane may not do everything a helicopter can do, the Flight Design CTLS that sheriff’s officials plan to buy can do much of what the department’s existing plane — a twin-engine 1973 Cessna Skymaster — can do with lower fuel and maintenance costs.”

It also will be able to do some tasks a helicopter can do, Williams added. Since the LSA can slow to 50 mph, it can circle and conduct aerial searches for suspects on the ground. “You can make the same sort of orbit as a helicopter without any problem at all,” Castellon quoted Williams as saying. Williams is one of two deputies who fly the Cessna and will fly the CTLS once it is delivered, probably in May or June.

Flight Design has agreed to install a video and forward-looking infrared camera and spotlight on the CTLS. The Tulare County Sheriff’s department also plans to upgrade their CTLS to an all-digital panel including a built-in screen to observe what the cameras see, Williams said. Funding for the well-equipped aircraft comes from a Homeland Security grant with the balance coming from money seized during narcotics investigations.

Castellon reported that once the Sheriff’s Department has its new plane, officials have a new duty in mind for it — to fly air patrols across the county five days a week, as well as respond to emergencies. Air patrols aren’t cost-effective tasks for the twin-engine Cessna the department currently operates. “It burns about 30 gallons of fuel an hour,” Williams said. “The new airplane burns three or four gallons of fuel an hour and it uses regular auto fuel rather than aviation fuel.”

Williams believes his department will be the first law enforcement agency to utilize a light support aircraft in support of patrol, work normally done with helicopters. Castellon reported the estimated annual cost for operating the CTLS will be about $57,000, not counting the costs for a pilot and the tactical flight officer, the person in the second seat observing the ground, operating the cameras and communicating with emergency responders.

“We are pleased to add the sheriff’s department to a fire department in Ecuador as the proof that CTLS can serve functional purposes,” observed John Gilmore, national sales manager for Flight Design USA. Government agencies are generally not restricted regarding their productive use of LSA.

Flight Design is a 24-year-old air-sport products producer based in Germany. The company remains the worldwide market leader thanks to its well-received CT series of light aircraft. More than 1,700 of these aircraft are flying in 39 countries. One of the first aircraft certified under ASTM International standards in 2005, the CT (“composite technology”) series remains the top-selling LSA in America through six

consecutive years. Flight Design sold the first LSA to India and was the first LSA to earn Chinese Type Design Approval. A newer model, the four-seat C4 will debut in 2011.

For more information or to find the closest Flight Design dealer, go to:  main manufacturer website www.flightdesign.com, or Flight Design USA website www.flightdesignusa.com.

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