“Mike and James took a trip in both our two seater and four seater up to Gaborone last Friday to demo to over 50 people. It was a very busy day for them but a great success it seems. Here is an interesting article in the Botswana Sunday Standard about the day and aviation in

“Hi Guys, we have Cessna, Piper, Topaz and Slings on our fleet. You can come and speak to all our instructors including our CFI who is a veteran instructor and is set in his ways, they all swear by the sling and say they can demonstrate all aspects of training set out in training manuals.

The WORLD FAMOUS around the world pilot Matevz Lenarcic makes a pit stop at The Airplane Factory to have his Pipestral Virus serviced before the next leg down to Cape Town

Yet another Sling takes to the skies for its first flight. She is obviously flying beautifully as test pilot Mike looks very comfortable in her already. Congratulations to Mark Bunning, I am sure the flying school is going to love her. 😀

Guys I dont know what is going on with the directors of The Airplane Factory but this photo, taken last weekend was leaked to me and I feel that in the interests of transparency it should be posted on the latest news and FB.

Another exciting day at The Airplane Factory as Mark Bunning and his wife Cathy take delivery of Jan Fick’s plane – SN 051. Mark and Cathy are flying her down to Cape Town to Morningstar today and will deliver her to Jan in the next couple of days. Well done to all at The Airplane

On the 13th , 14 and 15th of April is the annual Zebula fly-away and air show. We will be exhibiting and would love as many Sling owners to join. Details and a booking sheet is available for download here. Hope to see you there!

Most of you will have heard the news about the release of the Rotax 912iS. Well we have managed to secure one already and have been asked by Rotax to conduct warm climate testing for them……… so…… one lucky Sling owner (Wesley Vorster) is having his Sling fitted with the 912iS literally as I type.

Sling 2 SN 051 took to the skies for the very first time on Friday the 9th of March. Jan Fick, her owner has yet to fly her or for that matter even see her. Congratulations to Jan and well done to all at The Airplane Factory

“Hi Mike and James  Well who would have thought that just 6 months have passed since the Sling bug bit.Now I have my very own beautiful bird. Guys I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. You guys were and are fantastic. By this I mean everyone I had the pleasure