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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) is now the exclusive dealer for Pipistrel’s Panthera four-seat aircraft in North, Central, and South America, with the experimental model available now and certified deliveries slated for 2022 at an estimated price of $600,000 to $700,000.
  • RRA offers a new accelerated flight training package to earn an FAA private pilot-glider certificate for $2,999, utilizing the efficient Pipistrel Alpha Trainer as a motor glider.
  • This glider training program can be completed in as little as two weeks and requires only 10 flight hours, significantly reducing costs and time compared to traditional methods, with logged hours counting towards total flight time and other 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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