Aerobatic Snap LSA Unveiled at AirVenture

Bethany Whitfield

Friday, July 29, 2011 at 01:17 AM ET

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SportairUSA is introducing the Snap, a new single-seat, 130-horsepower aerobatic Light Sport Aircraft (LSA), to the American market.
Manufactured in Italy by Dallair Aeronautica with an EPApower engine, the Snap boasts a Vne of 180 knots and a roll rate over 300 degrees per second.
Expected to be available in the U.S. early next year with an estimated cost of $150,000, it will be certifiable as an experimental-exhibition or special/experimental LSA.

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Aircraft distributor SportairUSA is bringing a new LSA option to the American market, and an aerobatic one at that. On Tuesday at EAA AirVenture the company unveiled a prototype of the aircraft, which is a single-seat, 130 horsepower aerobatic LSA known as the Snap.

The Snap is a low-wing taildragger manufactured in Italy by Dallair Aeronautica. The aircraft runs on an electronic fuel injection engine based on the Rotax 900 series and built by EPApower, a company, also based in Italy, known for its production of Audi racing engines.