Parrish Aircraft Xperimental, Inc. was an American
aircraft design firm based in
Plantation, Florida and founded by Jimmy R. Parrish. The company specialized in the design of
light aircraft, providing plans for
amateur construction.
[Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 354. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ]
The company was founded to sell plans for the
Parrish Dart
The Parrish Dart is an American canard-configuration homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Jimmy R. Parrish and produced by Parrish Aircraft Xperimental, Inc. of Plantation, Florida. It first flew in the Autumn of 1995. When it was availabl ...
design. The Dart design underwent a number of changes between its conception in 1983 as a
delta-winged aircraft and its final 1995
canard configuration, greatly resembling the
Rutan Long-EZ.
The company was incorporated on 5 April 1996 and in April 2015 its corporate filing status was listed as "inactive".
By 1998 the company reported that one aircraft had been completed and was flying.
In April 2015 only one example, the prototype, was
registered in the United States with the
Federal Aviation Administration and it is unlikely that any others were constructed.
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