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Pipistrel’s Four-Seat Panthera Completes First Flight in US Airspace

Right Rudder Aviation is now the exclusive dealer in North America for the Pipistrel Panthera. Right Rudder Aviation
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Key Takeaways:

  • Right Rudder Aviation (RRA) is now the exclusive dealer for Pipistrel's Panthera in North, Central, and South America, a new four-seat composite experimental aircraft that recently completed its first US flight, with certified deliveries slated for 2022.
  • RRA also launched a $2,999 private pilot-glider training package utilizing the Pipistrel Alpha Trainer motor glider, enabling students to earn a glider certificate in as little as 10 flight hours, which can also count towards powered aircraft ratings.
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After flying the first US flight for the Pipistrel Panthera on August 25, 2020, Right Rudder Aviation (RRA) in Inverness, Florida, announced recently that they are now the exclusive dealer for Pipistrel’s slick new composite four-seat airplane in North, Central, and South America. Also included in that announcement was a new flight training package available from RRA that can be used to earn an FAA private pilot-glider certificate for $2,999 by using Pipistrel’s Alpha Trainer as a motor glider.

Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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