"mosswings" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
AceAir ceased operations in July 2004.
I understand that the Aeriks 200 had completed all of its flight tests
and was meeting most of its perfomance goals, but Diamond Engines, who
had bought manufacturing rights to the GiAe-110R rotary engine that the
Aeriks 200 was designed around, pulled the plug on engine production.
This effectively killed the design and the company.
Unfortunately, although the Aeriks 200 was an exquisitely designed and
built aircraft, at $60K (2003) it was expensive.

The recent runup of the Euro against the dollar (which will likely persist
for some years) would have made it financially unviable in the US market.

Not realy true. Aeriks was a swiss company, and they worked with suiss
franc... It's $ diving, not euro or sfr raising....




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