aerospace fate business wound up in 2009 founder tom peghiny headquarters south woodstock connecticut united states products kit aircraft website www.flyflightstar.com flightstar sportplanes was an american aircraft manufacturer based in south woodstock connecticut . its primary product was the flightstar line of ultralight and two seat training and light sport aircraft which were produced continuously from the mid 1980s . the company also distributed two other manufacturer s aircraft lines engines and aviation products . the company business was wound up in 2009 and the flightstar line sold to yuneec international of china . 1 2 3 4 5 contents 1 history 2 aircraft 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in the early 1980s by aircraft designer tom peghiny to build his initial commercial design the flightstar ultralight . the flightstar was intended for the us far 103 ultralight vehicles category with its maximum 254 lb 115 kg empty weight requirement . the two seat flightstar ii soon followed to fill the role of a trainer . the designs quickly became commercial successes and the basic design has been extensively developed over time . by 2007 over 700 single seaters had been sold . 1 5 in july 2009 peghiny demonstrated a new version of his spyder single seat model at eaa airventure oshkosh . designated the e spyder it differs from earlier models in that it is electric powered . the aircraft replaces the standard spyder s normally fitted two stroke engine with a yuneec power drive 20 20 kw 27 hp electric motor and two 28 lb 13 kg lithium polymer battery packs which provide a 40 minute endurance . the aircraft is intended to be developed into a commercially available kit and forecast to be available for under us 25 000 . 6 7 8 flightstar was also a distributor for ballistic recovery systems parachutes rotax and hks aircraft engines lockwood aircraft supplies the leza lockwood air cam and flight design ct series of aircraft . 3 aircraft edit flightstar ii summary of aircraft built by flightstar sportplanes model name first flight number built by year type flightstar circa 1986 single seat ultralight flightstar formula 1987 26 1999 single seat ultralight flightstar ii 1987 58 1999 two seat ultralight trainer flightstar spyder 1993 700 2007 single seat ultralight flightstar iisl 1994 180 2007 two seat ultralight trainer light sport aircraft flightstar loadstar 12 2001 single seat ultralight flightstar iisc 90 2007 two seat ultralight trainer light sport aircraft flightstar e spyder 2009 1 2009 single seat electric powered ultralight references edit a b cliche andre ultralight aircraft shopper s guide 8th edition page b 19 . cybair limited publishing 2001 . isbn 0 9680628 1 4 purdy don aerocrafter homebuilt aircraft sourcebook page 162 164 . bai communications . isbn 0 9636409 4 1 a b flightstar sportplanes n.d. . flightstar sportplanes . archived from the original on 11 july 2011 . retrieved 2009 10 13 . downey julia 1999 kit aircraft directory kitplanes volume 15 number 12 december 1998 page 49 . primedia publications . issn 0891 1851 a b downey julia 2008 kit aircraft directory kitplanes volume 24 number 12 december 2007 page 53 . primedia publications . issn 0891 1851 grady mary july 2009 . electric flight update flightstar ultralight first flight yuneec starts u.s. flight testing . retrieved 2009 07 23 . grady mary august 2009 . interview with flight design s tom peghiny . retrieved 2009 08 07 . flightstar sportplanes 2009 . yuneec flightstar e spyder . archived from the original on 7 november 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 14 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to flightstar aircraft . company website archives on archive.org v t e flightstar sportplanes aircraft e spyder flightstar flightstar ii flightstar iisc flightstar iisl formula loadstar spyder retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flightstar sportplanes & oldid 739115962 categories defunct aircraft manufacturers of the united stateshidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 21 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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