TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

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TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

9/20/2020 7:06 AM

Michael Marra

Joined: 3/26/2014

Posts: 706

Re: TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

This is a first for me...

I am now seeing ADSB on ULTRA-LIGHT aircraft. (This may be an LSA - not sure)

Looks like the SKY BEACON on the port wingtip!

Around here (the northeast USA) you pretty much need it to get anywhere. This one was seen at the huge party we had on 19 Sep 2020 at the Golden Age Air Museum at Grimes Aerodrome...did not get a chance to meet the aircrew.

Mike N714AJ

9/20/2020 10:19 AM

Don Maxwell

Joined: 1/13/2015

Posts: 1131

Re: TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft Modified By Don Maxwell on 9/20/2020 2:16:58 PM

Not an ultralight, Mike. Not even an S-LSA. It's a two-place Experimental, probably amateur-built, with an N-number. Great fun to fly.

9/22/2020 11:39 AM

Brolin McKay

Joined: 10/6/2019

Posts: 772

Re: TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

Michael Marra wrote:

This is a first for me...

I am now seeing ADSB on ULTRA-LIGHT aircraft. (This may be an LSA - not sure)

Looks like the SKY BEACON on the port wingtip!

Around here (the northeast USA) you pretty much need it to get anywhere. This one was seen at the huge party we had on 19 Sep 2020 at the Golden Age Air Museum at Grimes Aerodrome...did not get a chance to meet the aircrew.

Mike N714AJ

These are so cool - I really want one.

4/3/2021 6:08 PM

Michael Marra

Joined: 3/26/2014

Posts: 706

Re: TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

A buddy from our airport just had the SkyBeacon placed on his classic LUSCOMB...nice!

You see the SkyBeacon and TailBeacon everywhere...

Mike Marra N714AJ (N94 Carlisle, PA)

4/4/2021 6:14 PM

Don Maxwell

Joined: 1/13/2015

Posts: 1131

Re: TSO skyBeacon - Certified Aircraft

It's not an ultralight if it has an N-number. Looks like a Rans S-12 Airaile, originally intended to be an ultralight trainer--a fat ultralight--that the FAA later forced into the Experimental category (or else illegal to fly). Very nice airplane, easy to fly and with great visibility in that transparent bubble. I have about half an hour of dual time in one when it was "fat." I had to sign up for instruction to make the flight legal.

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