Avid Aircraft is an American aircraft kitplane manufacturer. The company was founded in 1983 by Dean Wilson to produce the

Avid Flyer The Avid Flyer is a family of American single engine, high-wing, strut-braced, conventional landing gear-equipped, two seat ultralight aircraft designed for kit construction in the 1980s. Its several variants sold in large numbers. In 1987 a Fly ...

.Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page B-12. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. Downey, Julia: ''1999 Kit Aircraft Directory'', Kitplanes, Volume 15, Number 12, December 1998, page 38. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851 After several bankruptcies, the company was most recently re-established in 2017.

History

Avid Aircraft was started in 1983 as Light Aero Inc in

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by aircraft designer Dean Wilson. The original Avid Flyer design won ''Best New Design'' at Oshkosh in 1983.Armstrong, Kenneth: ''Choosing Your Homebuilt - the one you will finish and fly! Second Edition'', page 133-140. Butterfield Press, 1993. The company, Avid Aircraft Inc, produced a full line of high-wing light aircraft kits before going bankrupt in 1998. Acquired by Jim Tomash, the company was moved into a 61000 ft² (5667 m²) converted greenhouse that included 21000 ft² (1951 m²) of cement flooring, in

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. Production of kits was re-established in the new facility. The factory also served as a customer build centre where customers who purchased Avid kits could complete their aircraft. The company closed again in November 2003, at the time indicating that the owners were looking to move to a more populated area of the United States. Following Avid's first bankruptcy in 1998 Airdale Sportplane and Supply started producing parts for most Avid models in 1999. That company later started producing the

Airdale Airdale The Airdale Backcountry is an American amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Brett McKinney and based upon John Larsen's Avid Mk IV design. It was produced by Airdale Flyer Company, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, but the company went out of b ...

and Airdale Avid Plus kitplanes, which are derived from the Avid Mark IV ''Hauler''. Airdale went out of business in 2017.Downey, Julia: ''2008 Kit Aircraft Directory'', Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 38. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851 In October 2017, Avid Aircraft was restarted under the name Avid Aircraft LLC, by Mark Mendick in

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