On Oct 9, 3:08*pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:

That is a shame! *I did much of my initial glider flight instruction in a
Blanik L-13 and later helped our soaring club purchase an L-23 Super Blanik.
They are easy-to-fly and reliable aircraft.

There is no indication of a cease of production on the LET web site hehttp://www.let.cz/index.php?sec=58

Paul Remde

Paul,

I see what you mean. There isn't any mention of it anywhere on the
web that I can tell. However, I got this information (second hand
through our maintenence chief) from Vitek who runs Blanik America and,
I would think, would be plugged into the latest information and not
send out false rumors. But even his web site http://www.nwi.net/~blanikam/ba/
still shows the L33, L13 and L-23 available.

I noted that the L-23 shown on that site has a two piece canopy (front
is side hinged and rear is rear hinged). However, for several years
the L-23 has come with a single piece canopy (with a very small hinged
canopy section at the wing root) - from serial No. 96-8401 onwards
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LET_L-23. We had such a CAP
L-23 on our field from 2005-2007. Are these old stale web sites?

Time will tell. I hope that this is a false rumor.

- John