founded 1979 founder tom hamilton headquarters arlington washington products homebuilt aircraft kits owner jilin hanxing group website glasairaviation.com glasair glastar built 2002 glasair merlin lsa glasair aviation usa llc is a chinese owned aircraft manufacturer based in arlington washington that produces the glasair and sportsman 2 2 line of homebuilt aircraft . contents 1 history 2 aircraft 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit tom hamilton began flight testing the glasair td and founded stoddard hamilton aircraft in 1979 . glasair aviation was formed in 2001 when thomas w. wathen purchased the glasair assets from bankrupt stoddard hamilton aircraft inc. and signed an agreement with arlington aircraft development inc. aadi to buy all rights to and assets of the glastar model . the new companies new glasair llc and new glastar llc are marketed under the glasair aviation name . 1 2 more than 3000 glasair kits have been delivered worldwide . in july 2012 the company was sold to the jilin hanxing group of china who formed a new company glasair aircraft usa llc . jilin hanxing group indicated that they intend to certify the glastar design and otherwise retain production in arlington washington . tieji fang chairman of the jilin hanxing group said that he envisions the company producing trainers for flight schools and eventually personal aircraft for the chinese market . he stated that purchasing glasair was the first step in a very long journey . 3 4 aircraft edit glasair ii summary of aircraft built by stoddard hamilton aircraft and glasair aviation model name first flight number built type glasair i 1979 807 5 low wing two seat kit aircraft glasair ii 1989 1200 low wing two seat kit aircraft glasair iii 1986 500 low wing two seat kit aircraft glastar 1994 300 high wing two seat kit aircraft sportsman 2 2 2003 400 high wing four seat kit aircraft glasair merlin lsa 6 2015 1 high wing two seat slsa aircraft see also edit plane driven pd 1 experimental modification to allow the aircraft to be roadable . references edit glasair aviation llc n.d. . a bit of history . retrieved 2009 06 01 . eaa news new glastar purchase of aadi . retrieved 2007 01 14 . glasair sold to chinese company . avweb.com . retrieved 2012 07 23 . bertorelli paul 23 july 2012 . glasair buy part of a grander plan . avweb . retrieved 14 july 2012 . bud daviddson may 2014 . 35 years of fast glas . sport aivation 53 . glasair adds lsa and certified aircraft . sport aviation 14 . may 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to stoddard hamilton . glasair homepage v t e glasair aircraft fixed wing aircraft tom hamilton glasair glasair i glasair ii glasair iii glastar merlin sportsman 2 2 t 9 stalker companies glasair aviation stoddard hamilton aircraft retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title glasair aviation & oldid 669226814 categories homebuilt aircraftaircraft manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in washington state arlington washingtonhidden 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 29 june 2015 at 19 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view