Quicksilver Aircraft, which recently launched the LSA qualified Sport 2SE, is shutting down its production facility in Temecula, California. Quicksilver’s president Will Escutia told Flying sales have dropped 25 percent in the past year from a level he described as already being at a “breaking point.”
The company has produced more than 15,000 ultralights and LSAs over its 42-year history. With that many aircraft on the market, Escutia said Quicksilver was competing against its own used airplanes, which would sell for half the cost of a new one. Escutia and his business partner Daniel Perez took over the company less than five years ago.
