Announcing a “proactive business strategy,” Glasair Aviation, maker of the Sportsman Experimental, says it is furloughing its production and builder-assist staff while retaining a “core group” of about 10 people for product support and engineering. The company has halted its Two Weeks to Taxi builder-assist program, citing COVID-19 restrictions and the inability to follow them inside that program. The company will not take new orders for existing product but will, instead, undertake a number of improvements to the Sportsman for a relaunch in 2021. Finally, the company says that any of the aircraft already in the TWTT pipeline will be completed.
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