Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. How many is too many? As the Light-Sport Aircraft industry has now reached 114 FAA approved models, some have started to say, “Enough!” Please... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. Every now and then the marketing geniuses in Light-Sport aviation have an exceptionally good idea. Here’s one of them: Initially organized by SportairUSA’s Bill... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. Breath a sigh of relief — 2010 has ended and nearly everyone in the business of aviation is offering prayers for a better 2011. Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. When my former home state of Minnesota grappled with enough snowfall to collapse the Metrodome’s inflated roof, I was still hanging out in the... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. “Too much fun!” was a common exclamation of my Alaska ultralight friend Mike Jacober. His signature phrase ran through my head as 18 airplanes,... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. Tim Casey is just plain full of it. Garmin‘s jovial, well-recognized manager of the instrument company’s aviation hand-held and LSA line of avionics products... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. David Kruger is what you might call a data-intensive fellow. A technical background gives him a keener-than-usual understanding of the value of research. Also... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. What do sugar cane harvesting equipment and light aircraft and engines have to do with one another? The former was the original work of... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. Over the years, Garmin has become a staple of LSAs. Stick your head inside the cockpit of virtually any SLSA and you’ll probably see... Continue Reading →

Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, is an expert on Light Sport Aircraft. You’re probably aware of the auto industry’s billion-dollar bet on electric cars. Skeptics are plentiful. Same for airplanes. Despite doubts, even Cessna and Bye... Continue Reading →