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The Sam Aircraft Sam LS is a Canadian aircraft design, designed and produced by Sam Aircraft, formerly known as Haim Aviation of Lachute, Quebec. The aircraft was designed for the Canadian AULA and American light-sport aircraft rules and had its first flight on 26 February 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pacificflyer.com/2012/03/new-lsa-looks-like-a-varga/ )〕〔Bernard, Mary and Suzanne B. Bopp: ''What's Coming?'', Kitplanes, Volume 29, Number 12, December 2012, page 29. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851〕 ==Design and development== The Sam LS is a low-wing, tandem seat monoplane. It can be configured for conventional or tricycle landing gear. The fuselage is semi monocoque, with a welded 4130 steel tube protective cockpit cage structure and aluminum skin. Three different wing planforms for light-sport, STOL and amateur-built categories can be installed to a common fuselage. The aircraft can be flown open cockpit with the canopy removed.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sport-aviation-expo.com/index.php/2128/sam-ls-modern-retro-lsa-takes-shape/ )〕 Prior to its first flight a prototype was shown at the 2012 EAA airshow.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thepilotreport.com/aircraft-review/the-sam-ls-light-sport-plane-by-haim-aircraft/ )〕 As of June 2013 the aircraft was on Transport Canada's list of accepted advanced ultralights, but has not completed US Federal Aviation Administration special light-sport aircraft approval. In July 2013 pricing was announced for kits and sub-kits, including wings, fuselage and empennage. In a break from normal industry practice the company said that it would offer those three sub-kits for a total that was the same as if they were ordered as a single kit, US$29,000. The complete kit with a Rotax 912ULS engine and Dynon Skyview avionics was forecast to cost US$65,000 at that time, taking a factory-estimated 900 hours to complete. By August 2014 the company was up for sale and SAM Aircraft President Thierry Zibi indicated that he would rather develop new designs than run a production operation. Zibi is hoping to find a buyer to produce the aircraft. In November 2015 the rights to the design, parts, jigs, molds, data and the prototype aircraft were being all offered for US$100,000.〔Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, SAM designer selling airplane rights for less than the price of a kit, ''COPA Flight'', December 2015, page A12〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Aircraft Sam LS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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