Aircraft
Extra 400/500 Certificate Holder Files for Insolvency
German company provided support for the few that had been manufactured
Extra EA-400 airplane
© John Davies - CYOW Airport Watch (GFDL 1.2) via Wikimedia Commons

SST Flugtechnik, an EASA-certified design organization, has filed for insolvency. The company is the type certificate holder for the Extra 400 and 500 single-engine airplanes and provides support for the few that still operate. It also develops modifications for special-mission and other aircraft.

Nine Extra 400s and no Extra 500s are shown on the FAA registry. Designed by Walter Extra, the piston-powered Extra 400 is a high-wing composite airplane that was FAA-certified in 1998. A turboprop version, the Extra 500, received an FAA type certificate in 2013, but it’s not certain whether any were ever delivered. According to Wikipedia, “In 2014, the company sold the design rights to the EA-400 and -500 to the Chinese company Jiangsu A-Star Industry.”

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