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Skybolt Wins German Award!  
 
UPDATED:  Mon. October 6, 2008 at 2:57 PM ET
Andreas Kranz and his Skybolt win first place for best homebuilt at the summer '08 meeting of the German OUV.

 
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Skybolt N360HP for Sale! top
Created: 07/18/2008
Updated: 07/18/2008
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Article by Christy Everette

SKYBOLT N360 HP

The airplane is an experimental category biplane with the N number N360HP and was completed in 1980 and was named and or titled as and Ebershoff Steen Skybolt.

The airplane was designed by Lamar Steen and was built from a set of Steen Aero Labs plans. The airplane is powered by a Lycoming 540-K1A5 Highly modified opposed cylinders certified aircraft engine. The propeller is a certified experimental propeller manufactured by M&T propeller in Germany and is a constant speed propeller. The airplane has a fully IFR panel and is Mod C equipped and also is equipped with a Garmin GPS. Historically for Colorado history the airplane is one of two airplanes designed, built and flown in Colorado, the other being the Alexander Eagle Rock. The first Skybolt was built in an industrial arts class in 1970 by minority students at Manual High School in Denver.

Total cost of building the airplane and maintaining the airplane is over $250,000. The airplane was built and flown nationally in air shows by David L. Ebershoff of Denver, Colorado. Dave has over 5000 hours of flying time and has a Single Engine Land pilots license with a commercial instrument rating and glider rating and Low level ground ratings for air show performances. The airplane was flown in over 100 air shows and 30 International aerobatics club contests for precision flying. The airplane has many performance modifications to improve performance. At various times the airplane was sponsored by various vendors including Coors Beer and Total petroleum. The airplane was nicknamed "Totally Awesome."

Dave was an ACE (air show creditation evaluator) for the ICAS organization for 8 years, participating in the evaluation of pilot skills for low level air show performances. Dave has probably flown more air shows than any other pilot in Colorado history.

N360HP has received numerous awards for showmanship and is the finest example of a Skybolt flying in the Nation today. Amongst the awards are:

National Biplane Grand Champion, concouers de elegance in Oklahoma.

Oshkosh reserve Grand Champion Charles Lindbergh award in 1982 and 1986.

Colorado Grand Champion for 5 years.

The prestigious Wright Brothers award at the Dayton air show for best plans homebuilt airplane nationally.

Approximately a dozen additional awards for showmanship and workmanship.

The aircraft has approximately 250 hours on a highly modified IO 540-K1A5 Lycoming with the heavy duty crank. Engine is in excellent condition.

Aircraft is also equipped with Mode C and encoding altimeter. Other instrumentation is an electric turn and bank, intercom, and two way vhf transceiver, VOR, GPS Garmin transceiver and GPS combo, 3 Dave Clarke Headsets, Parachute, seat belts front and aft, new tires, M&T composite 3 blade propeller, Highly modified ailerons with amazing roll rate, standard engine and performance instrumentation. The airframe has approximately 2,000 hours on it. This is a spectacular airplane, the finest of its kind.

Sales Price, US $175,000 OBO


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Pictures Added from Sun N' Fun 2008 top
Created: 06/20/2008
Updated: 06/20/2008
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Article by Christy Everette
We've added pictures from the Sun N' Fun airshow back in April. We have shots of not only our booth, but both planes and booths throughout the show. Enjoy!


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Aerobatic Biplanes Dominate Oshkosh Awards!
Paul Muhle's Pitts S1-SS wins Grand Champion Plans-Built
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Created: 07/30/2007
Updated: 08/01/2007
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Article by Mike Whaley
We couldn't be more pleased about all the acro bipes that scored big at AirVenture 2007!

Plans-Built Outstanding Workmanship Plaques went to:

  • Michael Marrin, 2006 Skybolt N348MM (St. Petersburg, FL - This plane was in our display tent at Sun 'N Fun 2007)
  • David Lucas, 2006 Acrosport II, N114KT (Chesterfield, MO)

Plans-Built Champion - Bronze Lindy Awards went to:

  • James Woolworth, 2007 Skybolt, N911JW (Milford, MI)
  • Christopher May, 2007 Wheeler Firebolt, N4GW (Owensboro, KY)
  • Duayne Muhle, 1996 Fleet Edward S1-S, N9173R (Duncan, NE)
  • James Kilroy, 2005 Pitts Model 12, N133GT (Berkeley, CA)

And then came the one everyone was waiting for... the Grand Champion Plans-Built (Gold Lindy) went to:

  • Paul Muhle, 2007 Pitts S1-SS, N557PM (Columbus, NE) (Note, this was incorrectly listed as an S1-S in the initial release of the awards listings)

The Paul Poberezny Founders Award for the best Classic Custom Built Aircraft went to:

  • Lary Carlston, Acroduster II, N26RB (Minneapolis, MN)

A hearty CONGRATULATIONS goes out to all the winners... you can't do much better than to win something at Oshkosh!


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EAA AirVenture 2007 and Brodhead Fly-In Reports
July 23-31, 2007
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Created: 07/25/2007
Updated: 07/25/2007
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Article by Steen Staff
While we are at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh and the Brodhead Antique Fly-In, we will be busy taking lots of photos and bringing you reports about what is happening. Please check the Event Reports section for the latest!


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New page for Worldwide Distributors Added top
Created: 01/25/2007
Updated: 01/25/2007
Link(s):  http:///distributors.cfm  http://www.aero-systems.com/
 
Article by Mike Whaley
As a result of Steen's products enjoying steadily growing popularity throughout the world, we are pleased to announce that Andreas Kranz of Aero-Systems is now Steen Aero Lab's exclusive representative in Germany! For more information, please visit our new Non-US Distributors page.


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