SkyCraft Airplanes
Company typePrivate company
IndustryGeneral Aviation
Founded2012
FounderTyler Ives
Christopher Gong
Paul Glavin
Fateout of business
HeadquartersOrem, Utah
ProductsLight Sport Aircraft
Websitewww.skycraftairplanes.com
SkyCraft SD-1 Minisport

SkyCraft Airplanes was a Light Sport Aircraft manufacturing company based in Orem, Utah. The company only built one product, the SkyCraft SD-1 Minisport, a single-seat low-wing plane designed in the Czech Republic.

The company debuted the aircraft at 2013 EAA Airventure Oshkosh as a ready-to-fly, S-LSA Certified aircraft.[1] Production of the aircraft began two months prior in May 2013 and was intended to have a revised cockpit, including Dynon SkyView instrumentation.[2][3]

At the end of May 2014 Skycraft announced that light-sport flight testing had been completed. However, as of 7 August 2017 the SD-1 was still not on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of accepted light-sport aircraft and by the end of 2017 the company had gone out of businesses.[4][5]

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References

  1. ^ "SkyCraft Airplanes Debuts Ready-to-Fly SD-1 Minisport". Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  2. ^ "SkyCraft Begins Production on SD-1 Minisport". Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Durden, Rick (May 30, 2014). "SD-1 Minisport Flight Testing Completed". AVweb. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Federal Aviation Administration (August 7, 2017). "FAA Make/Model Directory for SLSA". Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Johnson, Dan (June 17, 2017). "SD 1 MiniSport, SD1 Mini Sport experimental aircraft from SD Planes USA AV16". Light Sport and Ultralight Flyer. Retrieved May 10, 2020.

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