The new owner of Micco Aircraft plans to deliver the first SP26 aerobatic aircraft by the middle of next year as it relocates the aircraft’s tools, fixtures, jigs and inventory from Fort Pierce, Florida to the new manufacturing facility in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
The company was acquired last month by private investors, headed by James Billie, majority stakeholder and chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. That company acquired the type certificate of the Myers 145 in 1993, which it then redesigned and relaunched as the Micco SP26 seven years later.
The SP26 was later sold “for political reasons”, says Micco, and the programme put on hold. Micco will relaunch production in the second quarter of next year and begin taking orders “very soon” for the $295,000, Textron Lycoming IO-540 T4BS-powered aircraft.
Source: Flight International
