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Experts Headline the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase

There were plenty of light sport makes and models to see on the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase flight line. Credit: Roy Beisswenger
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Key Takeaways:

  • Dan Johnson, a leading expert in light sport aviation and recent inductee into the EAA Ultralights Hall of Fame, praised the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase as a quality trade show for serious buyers, emphasizing direct interaction and easy demo flights.
  • Johnson's keynote detailed the FAA's upcoming MOSAIC rules rewrite, which is expected to increase LSA capabilities (weight, speed, capacity, retractable gear) and potentially allow for compensated work, though details remain speculative until the official Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM).
  • He observed that LSA sales leveled off due to COVID-19 and regulatory uncertainty but predicts a strong future for the market if the economy remains steady, as recreational aviation trends historically correlate with the stock market.
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In every segment of aviation, there are people who are considered to be experts, the kind of leaders that have the pulse of the entire segment and have acquired their considerable knowledge base from many years of being on top of industry and market developments every day. 

For the light sport category of aircraft and everything that falls under the umbrella of “recreational flying,” that expert is Dan Johnson, a 5,500-hour commercial pilot with instrument and multiengine ratings—and former flight instructor—who has flown and evaluated more than 400 LSA and other recreational aircraft sport pilots may fly. 

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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