Stirling Ultralights will build all types of ultralight kits for you. We have built and flown many kits including Highlander and Challenger.
Why an ultralight aircraft?
A typical certified general aviation (GA) aircraft such as Cessna or Piper typically cost in excess of $80,000 to $500,000 or can be rented out at rates in excess of $150 per hour.
The ultralight is a type of aircraft that costs $20,000 to $60,000 and are built from kits by the owner or by someone else on the owner’s behalf.
The typical modern day (after 2000) ultralight is now considered to be as safe as the certified counterpart - general aviation airplane.
Kits can be purchased, built with simple tools in less than 6 months and bringing flying to more people within the realm of affordability that hasn’t been seen in the last 25 years.
Most ultralight aircraft are typically built from aluminum, wood and fabric. The factories that put together these kits are a great source of support to the owners, assisting them in helping to assemble their kits.
There are thousands of ultralights flying in North America. This is a testament to their safety and popularity. The Highlander is safe and reliable, and Stirling Ultralights provide them for customers in Canada.
The cost of flying general certified aviation aircraft gets higher and higher, and with more red tape and litigation. More pilots were dropping out of flying all together until the ultralights came along.
In the early seventies many pilots and want-to-be pilots, feeling frustrated by the high costs of flying these conventional airplanes started to build ‘ultralights’ having no structural or aerodynamic engineering experience or training. This resulted in significant deaths and the ultralight name got a bad reputation because of it. Today there are factories employing engineers designing these low cost alternatives. The safety record has improved dramatically to the point they are statistically as safe as the GA aircraft.
Now with the safety record vastly improved there is a renewed demand for this safe low cost alternative to the General Aviation fraternity.
Not only is there low cost associated with ultralights, but also many have flight performance envelopes (speed, rate of climb, fuel usage etc.) that exceed the certified GA counterparts further enhancing the need for the ultralight.
We believe that we are on the cusp of a major groundswell demand for ultralights in Canada providing and building kits for new and well-established pilots.
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