Cessna LSA -- Good Luck if you want one

Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly
one! If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to
go to Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet
with a Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and
Cessna will not provide you with one, so you are on your own there.
Cessna says the LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:
Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly
one! If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to
go to Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet
with a Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and
Cessna will not provide you with one, so you are on your own there.
Cessna says the LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.

Did they settle on an engine? Last I heard,
they were still trying to decide whether it
would be Rotax or Lyc.

Any performance specs, particularly endurance
and top speed?

In any case, I'm not gonna trade my CTSW for
one.

("C J Campbell" wrote)
Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly one!
If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to go to
Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet with a
Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and Cessna will
not provide you with one, so you are on your own there. Cessna says the
LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.


Allowing for some late '07 production startup issues, I wouldn't expect to
see many before 2008, anyway.

Marketing 101: Creating (Hyped) Demand :-)


Paul-Mont

Wow,

After looking at the Cub-Crafter Sport Cub, I don't think I'd want the
Cessna.

You would think it's just another warmed up J-3, but it is a clean paper
design with mass use of composites.

Karl

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly one!
If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to go to
Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet with a
Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and Cessna will
not provide you with one, so you are on your own there. Cessna says the
LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

"Jim Stewart" wrote in message news
C J Campbell wrote:
Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly one! If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your
dealer, apparently, have to go to Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet with a Cessna
representative. There are no hotel rooms available and Cessna will not provide you with one, so you are on your own
there. Cessna says the LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.

Did they settle on an engine? Last I heard,
they were still trying to decide whether it
would be Rotax or Lyc.


IMHO, neither of them...I'd put my money on this engine: http://tcmlink.com/engines/index.cfm?lsa=yes


Any performance specs, particularly endurance
and top speed?

In any case, I'm not gonna trade my CTSW for
one.

"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
news
C J Campbell wrote:
Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly
one! If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to go
to Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet with
a Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and Cessna
will not provide you with one, so you are on your own there. Cessna says
the LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.

Did they settle on an engine? Last I heard,
they were still trying to decide whether it
would be Rotax or Lyc.

They got smart and decided on the Continental O-200. Market surveys said
they would sell very few if they went with the Rotax.


Any performance specs, particularly endurance
and top speed?

In any case, I'm not gonna trade my CTSW for
one.

Dave Stadt wrote:
They got smart and decided on the Continental O-200. Market surveys said
they would sell very few if they went with the Rotax.

This was the only comment I wrote on my card at AirVenture last year,
"Dump the Rotax!"

Why? The DA-20 in my flying club had so many problems with the Rotax
that the airplane spent 20% of its time down for engine maintenance
problems.

"john smith" wrote in message
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Dave Stadt wrote:
They got smart and decided on the Continental O-200. Market surveys said
they would sell very few if they went with the Rotax.

This was the only comment I wrote on my card at AirVenture last year,
"Dump the Rotax!"

Why? The DA-20 in my flying club had so many problems with the Rotax that
the airplane spent 20% of its time down for engine maintenance problems.

And Rotax support is the other side of nonexistant.

On Jun 21, 4:34 pm, "Montblack" Y4_NOT!...
wrote:
("C J Campbell" wrote)

Cessna is rationing their LSA very strictly. Each dealer gets exactly one!
If you want a Cessna LSA you AND your dealer, apparently, have to go to
Oshkosh with a $10,000 deposit one week before the show and meet with a
Cessna representative. There are no hotel rooms available and Cessna will
not provide you with one, so you are on your own there. Cessna says the
LSA will be less than $100,000.

For your deposit you get on a list for delivery, perhaps in 2008.

Allowing for some late '07 production startup issues, I wouldn't expect to
see many before 2008, anyway.

Marketing 101: Creating (Hyped) Demand :-)

Paul-Mont

Hey! It's the american way...

denny

Dave Stadt wrote:

They got smart and decided on the Continental O-200.

Aren't Cessna and Lycoming both owned by Textron? ... but they'll use a
competing engine in their LSA?

Dave