When newly formed Tiger Aircraft announced a few years back that it was going to reintroduce the four-seat AG-5B Tiger, last produced back in 1993, it seemed like a natural. Unlike a number of more forgettable and more obscure airplanes that have been returned to production (sometimes successfully, more often not) since the bust of the mid-1980s, the Tiger makes better sense today than ever.
Indeed, it can be argued that this 30-year old sheet-metal design is the most innovative single going. Cirrus and Lancair may have decided to go with advanced composites for their next-generation airplanes, but way back in the 1960s, the airplanes that begat the Tiger were made with advanced materials, a number of design innovations and weight-saving construction techniques.
