Are there any owners on here with in a day trip distance of Los Angeles, California? We have a customer who is looking to purchase a helicopter and would like to see one in this area. Please let me know if you would like to show off your beautiful helicopter to him.

Also, I am compiling a list of all owners that are interested in showing off their helicopter to prospective owners. If you would like to be on this list, please send me an email. This list will only go to dealers and the dealer will contact you to Give you the information for the customer. We will not share this list publicly.

Thank you for your continued support of Composite-FX!

Hi guys, here is the problem I encountered with the XE285.
the cooling fan is broken several times recently, I guess the reason is the vibration of the engine is too big.
do you have any good solution?

Mark the calendar, 28-29 March 2020

All,
During the 2019 EAA annual Oshkosh Airventure, Composite-FX had a writer come by our display booth and do a story about Composite-FX and our helicopter. The story was published in the January 2020 monthly magazine (page 77) and features pictures of the first Turbine engineered and built at Composite-FX (also flown at the show). The article also has an embedded article about our newest dealer in Tennessee Dave Story (storeyaviation@yahoo.com). Its a great piece of world wide advertisement and we owe a thanks to Beth Stanton (bethestanton@gmail.com) for taking the time to do the story and coordinate the photo shoots.

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  EAASA_MosquitoHelicopter_2001.pdf (Size: 13.65 MB / Downloads: 34)

I live in Western Europe. We get 16.5 hours of daylight in the Summer, and 8 hours of daylight in the Winter.

Monday to Friday, I drive 50 miles to work. It takes me about 1hr 10mins each way, so I spend about 2.5 hours driving to and from work.

I drive an 18-year-old Ford Ka, and I get something like  35 -45 mpg.

I'm trying to see what my options would be... how it would work out if I got a mosquito for my commute.

The distance from my home to my work, as the bird flies, is 38 miles.

A friend of mine flies microlight planes and he tells me that this wouldn't work out. He says yoi probably can't fly a mosquito in the dark, and taking into account bad weather, I might be only able to fly to work about 40% of the time.

Looking for a junk Inntec 800 or snowmobile 800cc equivalent to cannabalize some parts that are not currently available from the OEM.

Are the main part assemblies like rotor head, swash plate, pulley's and gear box's - common to all mosquito models (from the AIR on)?  And are these CNC machined and readily available?

I recently acquired a Mosquito Air.  Now discontinued - does anyone know how many were produced as fully assembled AND/OR #of kits sold?

After wanting an ultralight helicopter for decades I've gotten a Mosquito Air with a Rotec 503 / dual Bing 54's.  Question... I've seen videos & pics of BOTH pump (and gravity) feeding fuel to the carbs. And I've seen gravity ALONE feeding fuel to the carbs.  Whats the latest on this? Is there a relationship to this choice and the "notorious" Rotec engine stoppage I've heard about??

I noticed that oil seems to be leaking between the cylinder head and the block.  Bottom cylinder, port side.  It is not a big leak and the oil seems to have been thru the combustion process as it is dark.  At first it looked more like an exhaust leak (black - discolored soot on the case at the split between the head and the block) but then there was enough (over several hours) to run down to the bottom of the cylinder and “pool”.

I checked the nut/bolt tightness of all the ones that were associated with this area /  issue, cleaned up the area, ran the engine and it reappeared.

Suggestions?  Is this a big concern?  Do I need to pull the cylinder and replace a gasket?  Is there a gasket here or just metal to metal?

Daryl