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Factory Built and Manufactured

Aircraft

The range of preowned factory built aircraft on the market gives you access to a wide variety that can likely fulfill your missions. Moreover, it's typically quicker to get into the sky in a preowned aircraft. While it can be time-consuming to go through the pre-buy inspection that should be part of the purchase of any used aircraft, it doesn't take as long as waiting at the back of the line-sometimes for several years-after reserving a delivery position for a new airplane. You'll likely pay less and get more. Preowned aircraft typically have a lower purchase price, enabling you to buy an airplane even if you couldn't afford a new one. And used aircraft often deliver comparatively better value. A 10-year-old airplane will arrive at its destination at just about the same time as a new model making the same flight, yet the cost of the aircraft will be significantly lower. • Aero Commander • Aerofab Incorporated • Aeronca • Aerospatiale • Aerostar • Ag Cat • Air Tractor • Aircoupe • Alon • American • American Aviation • American Champion • American General • American Legend • Aviat Aircraft • Ayres Corporation • Beech Aircraft Company • Bellanca • Boeing • Bombardier • British Aerospace • Cessna Aircraft Company • Champion • Christen Industries • Cirrus • Commander Aircraft Company • Commodore Jet • Consolidated Aeronautics • Cubcrafters • Dassault Falcon • Daher Socata • DeHavilland • Diamond Aircraft Industries • Embraer • Engineering and Research • Ercoupe • Falcon • Flight Design • Forney • Gates Lear Jet Corporation • Grumman • Grumman American • Gulfstream Aerospace • Gulfstream American • Hawker Beechcraft • Israel Aircraft Industries • Jabiru • Lake Aircraft Incorporated • Lear Jet Aircraft Corporation • Luscombe Aircraft Corporation • Maule Aircraft Company • Meyers • Mitsubishi Aircraft • Mooney Aircraft Company • North American • OMF Aircraft • Piaggio • Pilatus • Piper Aircraft Company • Raytheon • Remos • Rockwell • Rockwell International • Ryan • Sabreliner • Schweizer • Smith Aircraft Company • Socata • Stinson Aircraft Company • Taylorcraft Aviation Company • Tiger Aviation • Twin Commander

Amateur Built and/or Kit Aircraft

The world of homebuilt aircraft — officially known in the United States as Experimental Amateur-Built Aircraft — has existed as long as powered flight. Experimental amateur-built aircraft, often called “homebuilts” because they are typically built in people’s garages and basements, are the fastest growing segment of new aircraft in the United States. Amateur built aircraft are built by individuals and certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as “experimental amateur- built” (E-AB). Even the Wright brothers were homebuilders, since they didn’t rely on a factory to construct their airplanes. They, like the homebuilders of today, used their own abilities and craftsmanship to construct safe and efficient flying machines. Homebuilt aircraft are generally small, one to four- seat sportsplanes which employ simple methods of construction. Fabric-covered wood or metal frames and plywood are common in the aircraft structure, but increasingly, fiberglass and other composites as well as full aluminum construction techniques are being used. • Ace Aircraft Company • Acro Sport • Aerocomp Incorporated • Aircraft Spruce and Specialty • Avid Aircraft Incorporated • Baby Ace Series • BD Aircraft • Capella Aircraft • Christen Industries • Glasair • Great Lakes • Great Lakes Sports Trainer • Kitfox • Lancair • Long EZ • Murphy Aircraft Manufacturing • One Design • Pitts • Pitts Special • Pulsar • Rans Incorporated • Seawind Incorporated • Sky Star Aircraft Corporation • Stoddard Hamilton Aircraft • Stolp Starduster Corporation • Vans • Varieze • Velocity • Wag-Aero Helicopters and Rotorcraft The word helicopter is adapted from the French language hélicoptère, coined by Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution" and pteron "wing". English-language nicknames for helicopter include "chopper", "copter", "helo", "heli", rotorcraft and "whirlybird". • Aerospatiale • Agusta • Bell • Enstrom Helicopter Corporation • Eurocopter • Hughes • MBB Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm • MD Helicopters, Incorporated • Robinson Helicopter Company • Schweizer Aircraft Corporation • Sikorsky