RANS CLAN

Yesterday me, Rick Hayes, and Steve Spence flew our three RANS airplanes around the shoreline of Michigan's 'Thumb'. The weather was absolutely perfect, except for the afternoon bumps! There is a short write up about our flight and some really high quality photos on the following thread on the RANS CLAN forums.

"RANS will be attending the Rocky Mountain Light Sport Expo this weekend, May 19-20th, at Front Range Airport in Denver, CO. The S-19LS and S-7LS will be on display and available for demo rides."

Jana Morenz

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It's still a little chilly in the northern part of the U.S. where I live, but I'm already thinking about airplane camping. Michigan has a lot of airports that allow camping and I plan on visiting all of them this summer. How about in your area? We have a section on the RANS CLAN forums to list your favorite fly-in camping locations. Let's build this section up this summer with lots of reports!

Post airport details, photos, area attractions, etc... Hopefully this section will become more and more useful for others who are looking to add some adventure to their RANS flying.

Reggie (Red) Deloach's Widow is trying to sell his S19 project. It is somewhere in the ballpark of 70 to 80% done but I'm not positive on this. Instruments, prop and Rotax 912 included. $65K [Info Here]

Rick McBride is selling his award winning S-7S. More info is located on the RANS CLAN forums here.

"I’m back from Sun & Fun 2012. What a beautiful week of weather we had. We had a lot of traffic through the RANS booth where the S-19 and S-7S were on display. Jana gave lots of demo rides in the S-7S and S-19. It seems to me like the draw to the S-7S is from those who want a bush type plane. I think the internet videos and Alaska flying shows on television have had a lot to do with that. With the changes to the 2012 plane, especially the larger fuel tanks (26 gal) new gross weight of 1320 lbs, new ailerons, and bush tire options, the S-7S and it pricing is attracting the bush pilot crowd.

Ted Bryant of B&B Sport aviation had a booth set up at Sun & Fun’s Paradise City with his new S-6S, an S-6ES, Mike Suckling’s S-7S and Tom Caliendo’s S-12 . Tom beautiful S-12S won reserve Grand Champion Light Sport Aircraft.

RANS S-12

I enjoyed meeting and talking with the RANS CLAN and other RANS enthusiast. It was fun putting faces to the names we see on our groups. If the demos ride and people who signed up for more info are any indication, we will see many more RANS owners joining our discussions on the RANS Groups."

Rick Hayes and the RANS Crew!

RANS Flight Instructor Jana sent me a few pics of the RANS gang from Sun-n-Fun. This first one is of the Tennessee S-7 flyers going home from the show. Dealer Sam Kite is in the rear. Larry Murphy is in the middle, and Dude McNabb and Ed Athey are in the lead.

I sure am! Today was one of those rare blue sky days in Michigan. Temps were in the 60's and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to open the hangar door and wax the airplane. My RANS S-6S has a fresh annual, and it's cleaned, polished, and ready for summer!

If you haven't discovered the magical God-send called Flitz, you need to try it. Flitz is a light blue non-abrasive metal polish that does wonders for your plane. I used it to polish all of the flying wires on the tail, the brass leading edges of the Kiev prop, and all the nuts on the outside of the plane. All of these parts look brand new and shiny now.

I had to return a tile saw and a nail gun to my buddy Steve so I used that as an excuse to go flying. I buckled the saw in the passenger seat and tossed the gun in the baggage compartment and took off into bumpy skies. On the way up to Romeo airport I had a ground speed of 138 mph with the power pulled back! Coming home was, shall we say, a little slower. All in 1.1 hours of pure, inexpensive to operate, fun! I can't wait for Oshkosh!!