Midwest LSA Expo Mt. Vernon Airport, September 10 - 12.

We've seen "legacy" general aviation builders depart the Light-Sport Aircraft scene. 

The reasons are varied but certainly this is highly competitive space with frequent innovations applied and clean-sheet designs emerging like clockwork (more than one per month for ten straight years!). 

Once a company becomes accustomed to the profits turbines and jets can generate, small piston aircraft looks like a lean market.

However, as one major name exits another arrives. A year and a half ago at AOPA's last Palm Springs, California Summit, Van's Aircraft announced their entry to Special LSA through an arrangement with Synergy Air. 

It was something of a toe in the water for the large kit builder. To no one's surprise, they sold out immediately. 

After spinning up operations to build and deliver the first batch, Van's and Synergy evaluated and chose to continue onward with building ready-to-fly airplanes.

The Mount Vernon Outland Airport, serving pilots from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Montgomery, Dallas, Fort Work Oklahoma City, Kansas City Wichita Des Moines, and Oshkosh during the Midwest LSA Expo.