Stratos Aircraft

Among the many exciting aircraft on display on the EAA AirVenture grounds in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a few stand out a little extra this week. Redmond, Oregon-based Stratos Aircraft brought the latest version of its light jet, the 716X, which will soon make its way to customers. This is the first time the public has a […]

Redmond, Oregon-based Stratos Aircraft completed the first flight of its latest prototype, taking another step toward bringing the sleek 716X, a single-engine jet, to market. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney JT15D-5, the 716X will be offered as an experimental; however, Stratos designed the airplane with certification in mind. While the process has not yet […]

As the gates opened for the annual weeklong EAA AirVenture show, Redmond, Oregon-based Stratos Aircraft announced a modified version of its proof-of-concept single-engine jet – the Stratos 716. Stratos’s CTO and chief designer, Carsten Sundin, briefed the media about the progress on the proof of concept airplane and the new design. While the ultimate goal […]

The Stratos 714 VLJ has been more than ten years in the making, originating with a conversation between CEO Michael Lemaire and Chief Technology Officer Carsten Sundin. On Monday, their team proudly displayed the fruit of their labor at EAA AirVenture, as the 714 kicked off the morning’s activities at Boeing Plaza. With fresh paint […]

Sticking to the schedule set since the first test flight in November, the Stratos 714 will make its official public debut at AirVenture 2017 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin later this month. “Fresh out of the upholstery and paint shops,” the single-engine jet will be on display all week (July 24-30) at Boeing Plaza, following a press […]

Cirrus Aircraft is soon going to have some competition for its recently certified SF50 Vision Jet as Stratos Aircraft announced it has completed the first flight test phase for its Stratos 714 single-engine jet. Since the first flight in November of last year, the test pilots have logged 52 hours during 33 flights, topping out […]

Last week, the four-seat Stratos 714 jet took to the skies for the first time from the company’s headquarters at the Roberts Field Airport in Redmond, Oregon. The plan for the flight, which lasted only 10 minutes, was to evaluate the general stability and systems operation of the single-engine jet. Test pilot Dave Morss was […]

Five days of wind tunnel testing for the Stratos 714 very light personal jet (VLPJ) have been completed at the University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory (UWAL) in Seattle, Washington. More than 90 tests were conducted on a one-fifth-scale aluminum, polycarbonate and composite model of the single-engine jet design.** ** Engineers are still analyzing the data […]

While at the 2010 NBAA convention, I stopped by the booth of Stratos Aircraft to check up on the progress the company was making with its eponymous single-engine jet. What I discovered was pretty much exactly what I expected to discover. The company was exceedingly optimistic about the prospects for its jet while admitting there […]

All-new design airplanes from startup companies are often called “paper airplanes” because the company has no track record of producing any kind of airplane. So when you design a paper airplane, you should shoot for the moon, and Stratos, a new would-be jet maker in Bend, Oregon, has with its Model 714 personal jet. For […]