Liberty Aerospace, a proven leader in the design and manufacture of aviation carbon fiber structures, complimented by its state of the art composites facility, is expanding its global customer base to include not just the aerospace industry, but all industries where carbon fiber may provide a marketing or design alternative to enhance their product.
Liberty Composites offers a full range of services including design capabilities, prototyping, testing, and tooling for any size lot, large or small.

Mark Miller, Liberty Aerospace’s Senior VP of Production stated, “We are proud to offer our composite capabilities to the open market. The efficiency of our operation and the quality of our product is second to none. We are excited about this expansion and look forward to building additional relationships within the aviation community and other various industries.”

Liberty Composites has experience with a broad range of composite materials and their relationship with Toray Composites (America), Inc. will remain a cornerstone of its future growth. Leslie Cooke, Director of Sales and Marketing for Toray’s Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) Aerospace Prepreg Program stated, “Liberty Composites is one of the few companies that has earned the coveted FAA-AGATE Approval for its composite parts manufacturing facility and we are excited about this announcement.” 

The announcement of the formation of Liberty Composites follows the successful awards of several projects in diverse industries.  As interest in Liberty Composites grows, Liberty Aerospace anticipates continued success as more and more companies realize the benefits of utilizing composite materials.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON LIBERTY COMPOSITES –
VISIT WWW.LIBERTYCOMPOSITES.COM

Liberty Aircraft USA, Inc. just completed a very successful trade show. In attendance were Doug Smith, Justin Mooney and Lyn Amestoy.  

The Northwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show was sponsored by the Washington Aviation Association and was held Feb 21-22, 2009.  The location was the Western Washington State Fairgrounds, in Pullallup WA. The conference attracted over 5,000 aviation enthusiasts taking part in two days filled with seminars and well over 150 aviation related vendor booths. The key note speaker was Craig Fuller, President of AOPA.

The Liberty XL2 was the only aircraft at the convention and without a doubt, the biggest attraction among the vendor booths.  One of the first questions was, “how did you get it in here?”  It became quite obvious that the easy wing removal was a great conversation starter.  

Craig Fuller, President of AOPA, and his photographer stopped by the aircraft and we had a good discussion on how the Liberty XL2 plays an important part of the new trends in General Aviation. No telling if our pictures with him will show up someplace…

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Greg Gibson, our Southeast Regional Sales Representative, was recently invited to speak at the EAA Chapter 635’s monthly meeting in Deland, FL.  Of highlighted interest at this particular venue, attendees were very interested in the Aspen Unit, recently certified as well as the power management of the FADEC system.

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Claim To The Longest Flight In An XL2!
Another Liberty XL2 claim-to-fame has been made by Paul Everitt, Business Development Manager for Liberty Aerospace Inc.  This time it's for the "longest non-stop flight in an XL2", which Paul is claiming after he flew 582.9 nautical miles from Wood County Airport (KJDD) just East of Dallas, to Tallahassee Commercial Airport (68J) just North of Tallahassee, Florida, on February 20th 2009.

Flying in XL2 Serial Number 007, the very first XL2 ever delivered to a customer, Paul checked the winds aloft and thought that it looked like a good day for a record distance attempt. He took off at 8:30AM, climbing out of a chilly (36deg) Wood County Airport and went straight up to 11,500ft where he stayed for most of the trip. With a 30-40 knot tail-wind for most of the way, Paul landed at Tallahassee Commercial 4 hours and 24 minutes later, with an average ground speed of 132 knots and a full 6.5 gallons of fuel (more than an hour reserve) still remaining. Power in the cruise was set at 52-54% and 2600RPM, for an average fuel burn of 5.22 gallons per hour.

The flight was logged on the GPS Tracking system that Liberty uses to monitor the location and status of it's aircraft in the field.

Although setting long-distance records is fun to try, naturally Liberty Aerospace recommends that XL2 pilots always fly their aircraft well within the standard fuel reserve requirements for any flight, as was done on this occasion.

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Want to be featured on next month’s XL2 Journey’s section? Please send us an image of yourself and airplane along with a short story detailing your trip.

You may send it by email to wlindsey@libertyaircraft.com

or via mail to Attn: Marketing Department, Liberty Aerospace, 100 Aerospace Drive, Melbourne, Fl 32901

Frank Tidikis
Mr. Frank Tidikis is a one of the first members of our XL2 family.  Taking delivery in June of 2006, Mr. Tidikis used his XL2 primarily for business related travel between Stuart to Boca Raton and home daily.  As the Chief Operating Officer of MDVIP, Inc. Mr. Tidikis commuted like this for a full year until his retirement in June of 2007. 

Mr. Tidikis states, “The distance was about 50 NM and I would put 1.2 hours on the plane daily or about 26 hours per month.  The flying time was 25 minutes from takeoff to touch down versus an hour and a half in rush hour traffic on I-95.”

Mr. Tidikis and his wife also like to travel in their XL2 to visit their son at Auburn University and to vacation at their cabin in Tennessee.

“The XL-2 is a great plane that the mechanics tell me is easy to maintain.  In addition, it sips gas at 5.7 gallons per hour on 60% power,” stated Mr. Tidikis.

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Rich LaRue
Mr. Rich LaRue is another member of our intimate XL2 family.  Mr. LaRue took delivery of his aircraft at the AOPA Expo in Palm Springs, CA, in November of 2006.  As a special treat to our customer, his aircraft was featured on the front cover of Plane and Pilot Magazine in March of 2007 as a “Terrific Trainer.”

Currently Mr. LaRue’s aircraft is based out of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA.  He uses the aircraft primarily for part time flight instruction through his personal business, Straight A’s Aviation, which is a play off his “real job” as a high school math teacher and in the names of his three daughters. 

Mr. LaRue flies his aircraft at least once a week and a good month of local flying is around 15hrs.  He stated, “I chose to buy a new airplane because I did not want to buy a used ‘legacy’ and I certainly do not want to have to ever sell an old used ‘legacy.’”  Eventually he would like to teach all of his girls to fly and hopes they someday will become flight instructors as well.

Mr. LaRue has relatives in both the Bay Area of California and Las Vegas, NV and is proud to say, “Vegas is only a tank of gas away!”  The XL2 proves, yet again, that it is economically efficient and operates in day to day conditions bringing families closer together.

In the most recent issue of AOPA Pilot Magazine Craig Fuller, in his President's Position, states that "the greatest threat to our future is in the lack of understanding about the role GA plays everyday in the nation's transportation system.  The AOPA Foundation and Campaign for GA is designed to enhance this perception..."  Liberty whole heartedly agrees with this perception and supports the efforts Mr. Fuller plans to move forward with. 

These days there is much talk about G.A. in terms of the “luxury vehicles” and “high end corporate travel,” but there is a misconception of the reality of what private G.A. planes provide for various business uses.  A number of executives across the nation use their private aircraft as their main form of transportation.  Working in various industries that have little access to their client base via commercial airlines, G.A. provides them with greater opportunity to meet the needs of their clients – all while maintaining a reasonable personal lifestyle with their families. 

According to USA Today, 85% percent of companies that use business aircraft are not corporate giants and according to the National Business Aviation Association, a trade group that represents business aircraft users and makers, they are small companies. And 86% of those on board those planes are non-executive employees. They're salespeople, technical experts or repair people traveling to remote business locations not easily reached via commercial airlines.

In many cases, the association says, business planes are used to deliver urgently needed parts or equipment to customers or operators in the field.

In all reality, G.A. employs over 1.2 million workers, of which are highly advanced technology positions, and the industry brings in over $150 billion in economic impact.

To learn more about how G.A. is fighting back, visit www.aopa.org.

The Liberty XL2 has been featured in the following publications in 2009:

• Plane & Pilot – March 2009
• Flying Australian – February 2009
• Aeromarkt – February 2009
• Pilotes – February – 2009
• Learn to Fly and Aviation Careers – January 2009
• Aero Australia – January 2009

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MARCH

5              Southeast Aircraft Expo; Savannah, GA – Greg Gibson, Liberty USA
7              Southeast Aircraft Expo; Knoxville, TN – Gordon Morrison, Liberty USA
10-15      Avalon Air Show; Avalon, Australia – Nigel Hutchinson-Brooks
16-19      Embry Riddle, N.T.A.S.; Daytona, FL – Greg Gibson, Liberty USA
12          Texas Aircraft Expo; Houston, TX – Lee Uecker, Liberty USA
13          Texas Aircraft Expo; Sugarland, TX – Lee Uecker, Liberty USA
21-22     KPGD - Florida International Airshow; Punta Gorda, FL – Greg Gibson, Liberty USA
26-28     KADS - Parade of Planes; Addison, TX – Lee Uecker, Liberty USA

APRIL

2            XL2 8th Anniversary Fly-In; Geneva Switzerland - Liberty Aerospace & EcoFlight
2-5        AERO Friedrichshafen; Friedrichshafen, Germany – Liberty & Piper Germany
4           Freedom Tour; Perry, FL – Greg Gibson
4           Freedom Tour; Albuquerque, NM - Todd Hill
16         Texas Aircraft Expo; San Antonio, TX – Lee Uecker, Liberty USA
17         Texas Aircraft Expo; Georgetown, TX – Lee Uecker, Liberty USA
18         Freedom Tour; Hammond, LA – Lee Uecker
18-19    Cecil Field Air Show; Jacksonville, FL– Greg Gibson, Liberty USA
25          Vectair Open House; Olive Branch, MS – Tom Saggau, Liberty USA
21-26     KLAL - Sun-N-Fun Fly-In; Lakeland, FL - Liberty Aerospace & Liberty USA

To contact your regional sales manager click here

That’s it for this month, safe flying until next time!

Visit us on the web at www.LibertyAircraft.com
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Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
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FAX : +1 321 752 0377
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