Zenair

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Zenair CH 200, an earlier Chris Heintz design
A Zenair CH 200, an earlier Chris Heintz design
Zenair CH 250 Zenith
Zenair CH 250 Zenith
Zenair CH 300 Tri Zenith C-GOVK used by Red Morris to make a record-setting non-stop flight across Canada in 1978. The aircraft is in the Canada Aviation Museum.
Zenair CH 300 Tri Zenith C-GOVK used by Red Morris to make a record-setting non-stop flight across Canada in 1978. The aircraft is in the Canada Aviation Museum.
Zenair CH 601 HDS Zodiac
Zenair CH 601 HDS Zodiac

Zenair Ltd is a pioneer in the kit aircraft industry, and is the brainchild of aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz.

Heintz formed his aircraft company in 1974 when, under the name of Zenair Ltd, he started to manufacture Zenith kits from his two-car garage. Heintz has introduced more than twelve kit aircraft designs. In 1992, Heintz licensed the kit manufacturing and marketing rights to Zenith Aircraft Company for the STOL CH 701 and the ZODIAC CH 601 designs, and has developed the new STOL CH 801 and the new ZODIAC XL for Zenith Aircraft Company.

In 1996, Chris Heintz and Zenair Ltd. obtained FAA type-certification for the ZENITH CH 2000, a two-seat low-wing aircraft based on his kit aircraft designs. Aircraft Manufacturing and Design (AMD) manufactures this aircraft as the AMD Alarus CH 2000. AMD also produces the CH 601 XL as a Light-sport Aircraft (LSA).

[edit] Aircraft

[edit] References

Company website

Zenith Aircraft Co. website

The Zenair Newsletter

Aircraft Manufacturing & Development, Co., Inc. website

Zenair website for europe