FAA Revoking Standard Airworthiness Certificate DG-505

AFAIK Schleicher had Licensed Centrair to build the ASW20 under their control as the ASW20F - Centrair then went off and
made an unauthorised derivative without flaps and different airfoils (on the B and D models) and called it a Pegase.
Fuselage is largely ASW20, but with changes to tail boom diameter and wing root fillet.

Schleicher's problem with the Pegase is that people perceive it as being a "modified Schleicher" and since Centrair is
no longer involved they try to get Schleicher to help them. The fact that it was - like many of the the current Chinese
cars , an unauthorised reverse engineering job of a replaced model, that must have cost some ASW24/27 sales is easily
forgotten. Similarly when there is a problem with a Pegase component you get speculation about the ASW design.

It is another example of undesirable consequences eventuating from appointing a third party to build a derivative of a
mainstream manufacturers design.

Cats wrote:
On Oct 19, 10:47 pm, Bruce wrote:
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Schleicher have smaller problems with the Pegase which is a derivative of the ASW20, but is at least different enough
that they are distanced from the problems.

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Interesting - I never thought Schleicher had anything to do with the
Pegase once they had sorted out the original problems over Centrair
effectively stealing their designs and so on. Could you illuminate me
please, as I own a Pegase!