Texas Aircraft Manufacturing‘s Colt Light Sport Aircraft has received FAA approval under ASTM standards as a Special-LSA.
The factory-built Colt S-LSA is produced by Texas Aircraft at its Hondo, Texas, production facility and is delivered to customers ready to fly. Because of its S-LSA classification, the Colt can be maintained by either a licensed FAA mechanic or a technician holding a current FAA LSA maintenance rating.
Colt S-LSA Performance Specifications
- Engine Type: 100 horsepower Rotax 912 ULS
- Propeller Type: Sterna composite, three-blade
- Maximum Cruise Speed: 119 KIAS
- Cruise Speed at 75% power: 105 knots
- Stall Speed Clean: 44 knots
- Stall Speed Full Flaps: 38 knots
- Takeoff Distance (50 foot obstacle): 1,085′
- Landing Distance (50 foot obstacle): 1,044′
- Climb Rate (Vy): 800’/min at Vy
- Service Ceiling: 14,500′
Yawn. It’s a junior version of a Cessna 172. But with a Rotax 912 carb’d engine (that’s old too). Base price $167k. That’s minus full glass panels, the BRS chute and of course a fuel injected Rotax. Remember the Skycatcher? Most of them have been shredded and returned to service as parts of other planes now…this one is headed there too.