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Offline Frank N. O.

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What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« on: September 08, 2007, 06:39:01 AM »
I took a drive past Odense Airport yesterday and parked at the parkinglot that's facing the parking in front of the tower and airport building that would be on our right. Besides the local 222B, the yellow An-2, a couple of Learjets or something like that, a P68, a King Air or two and a few more small fish then a really small fish came from the taxi way behind the building on our right, appearently just landed since the hangars are on our left. It was a very rounded high-wing low-tail fixed-gear 2-seater plane, possibly a kit-plane and/or ultralight. I couldn't see a registration but it did say something like CTVSI on the tail and side, but that doesn't look like any registration I know. The doors were top hinged and the wings had, uhm what's the word, those drooping edges a bit like some Cessnas get mounted, except these were deeper. The tail was really thing, really organic and was thin in the middle like a Diamond. I thought it was a Jabiru but then I saw that it was more boxy and didn't have the wingtips I saw and the door was sidehinged and had a square window where the one in this one were angled downward on the bottom, straight line. Any idea what I saw? I would've checked myself but I don't have any links for a site with a database of small aircraft.

Before that plane arrived I did take a look at the side of another parked aircraft that I first thought could be a Twin Commander but the shape wasn't quite right and the main gear was in the fuselage or from some tiny stumps, hard to tell from my angle, but here's the kicker, the registration on the tail started with "N7" isn't that a US registration? Quite a long flight isn't it? Of course it could be a ferry flight if it was sold from USA but still.

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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2007, 11:28:05 AM »
It might have been U.S., registration in U.S. starts with the N but there might be another country with the N and then a number so I couldn't say for sure.
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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2007, 07:42:11 PM »
Like this Franklin??

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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2007, 07:50:34 PM »
That does look more like it although I'm pretty sure the window wasn't round at the bottom but wedge-shaped (deeper in front than in the back), but the overall shape and the wingtips seem close to it yes. It was white with a red marking on the lower part of the tail that went up on the rudder-part of the vertical tail and it had these 5 letters on the tail written at an angle like the tail, and on the bottom part of the tail after the cabin and that was it, no other ID or name. I still think it was something like CTVSI but that doesn't match anything I know.

Edit: I found this picture via links from where you got that picture, and this does look close to the tail graphics, except I think the one I saw was just red
http://www.flightdesign.com/__jpeg.php?image=gallery/gal/1166537025_116653702527.JPG&size_x=1000&size_y=700&type=b&logos=ok&ugol=1&logo_inv=0
Very good research there Gibbo
Edit2: Ooooh, now this is a cool seat for an aircraft! http://www.flightdesign.com/__jpeg.php?image=gallery/gal/1159795702_115979570251.jpg&size_x=1000&size_y=700&type=y&logos=ok&ugol=1&logo_inv=0

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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2007, 08:43:06 PM »


Glastar?

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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2007, 08:51:06 PM »
It had to have been the one Gibbo posted since the shape is there as is the graphics. That Glastar looks cool though, like a real plane where the other one looks like a Micro Machines model  ::rofl::

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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2007, 08:03:24 PM »
 ::rofl:: Franklin ha ha, Micro Machines Model....that's very good.
I must admit, the first time I saw a CT I thought it looked like Smurfette's plane  ::rofl:: but Micro Machines is a more apt description  :D
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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2007, 05:11:16 AM »
Don't know what type of airplane it is.  But N7 is a FAA aircraft registered to the FAA.  Shows that it is based in Oklahoma City.  Looked it up on www.FAA.gov
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Re: What small aircraft did I see park in front of me yesterday?
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2007, 05:49:49 AM »
Like this Franklin??



Gibbo, see Shawn Kelly at Salinas airport about this airplane.  He's a sales rep for them.  He was also included in the Sept issue of Flying Magazine in Lane Wallace's column.  Lane got to fly not only this airplane, but a few other Light Sport Aircraft that are for sale at Light Sport West.

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