LSA insurance: planes yes, pilots maybe: the industry isn't exactly taking the LSA groundswell in stride. Insurance is available, but underwriters will like you better if you keep your medical.(KEEP ME COVERED)(light sport airplanes)(Buyers guide) From: The Aviation Consumer | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Doolittle, Jon | COPYRIGHT 2007 Belvoir Media Group, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For aviation insurers, it's the best of times and the worst of times. In many traditional parts of the aircraft insurance market, an overabundance of capital and new insurers is forcing premiums--especially those for corporate airplanes--down to new lows. At the same time, buyers are snapping up new airplanes of all sizes faster than manufacturers can build them. And the two new market areas of the decade, Very Light Jets and Light Sport Aircraft, are beginning to take off.

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