Stratos building second prototype
Stratos Aircraft reports that it has begun construction of a second prototype of its Stratos 714 very light jet.
Photo courtesy of Stratos Aircraft.
Stratos CEO Michael Lemaire said that construction has begun on a new, 13,000-square-foot composites facility at the company’s Redmond, Oregon, headquarters. When completed, the company will have doubled its factory space.
The Stratos 714 is configured to seat four to six and fly as far as 1,200 to 1,600 nautical miles.
Thomas A. Horne
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Tom Horne worked at AOPA from the early 1980s until he retired from his role as AOPA Pilot editor at large and Turbine Pilot editor in 2023. He began flying in 1975 and has an airline transport pilot and flight instructor certificates. He’s flown everything from ultralights to Gulfstreams and ferried numerous piston airplanes across the Atlantic.
