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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) has become the exclusive dealer for Pipistrel's Panthera, a high-performance four-seat composite aircraft, across North, Central, and South America, with certified models expected in 2022.
  • RRA introduced an accelerated flight training package for $2,999 to earn an FAA private pilot-glider certificate, potentially completing the course in as little as two weeks.
  • This glider training program leverages the efficient Pipistrel Alpha Trainer motor glider, reducing costs and enabling more flight time per session, with logged hours counting towards future powered aircraft pilot certificates.
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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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