{"id":9821,"date":"2017-11-21T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2017-11-21T22:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:41:37","slug":"lancair-welcomes-first-mako-owner-to-new-texas-builders-assistance-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/texas\/lancair-welcomes-first-mako-owner-to-new-texas-builders-assistance-center\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Lancair Welcomes First Mako Owner to New Texas Builders Assistance Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9822\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Texas-Builders-Center-Lancair-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Builders Center Lancair\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Texas-Builders-Center-Lancair-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Texas-Builders-Center-Lancair.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lancair\u2019s first production Mako customer was welcomed last week to the newly-launched Builder Assistance Center at the company\u2019s Texas headquarters. Housed in a 10,000 square foot climate-controlled hangar, the Builder Assistance Center provides a dedicated work environment for Lancair kit owners to complete critical aircraft assemblies or the entire aircraft. Comprehensive in-house factory support, including customized jigs and fixtures, tools, supplies and expertise, allows aircraft buyers to shave months or even years off their aircraft build time.<\/p>\n<p>Available for Mako and Legacy aircraft, Lancair&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 Builder Assistance Program is dedicated to helping buyers rapidly advance their aircraft to completion. In addition, the intensive one-on-one process ensures that new owners are intimately familiar with their aircraft, helping them to enhance safety and minimize future maintenance expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Many owners have reported that the hands-on experience of the build process is immensely rewarding. One buyer\/builder remarked that it was \u201cmore fun than any vacation\u201d and every bit as satisfying in its own way as actually flying the airplane.<\/p>\n<p>Taking full advantage of the flexibility of the Experimental \u2013 Amateur Built classification, Lancair offers purchasing options for every buyer, from home-build kits to ready-to-fly aircraft. Builder Assistance programs range from a basic 2-week program to full in-house \u201cFly-Away\u201d aircraft completion. The standard 2-week program comes with every Mako purchase and includes assistance in closing wings, tail and control surfaces and mating the fuselage halves.<\/p>\n<p>For buyers unable to participate at the Texas factory, builders\u2019 assistance programs are available to coordinate construction with build centers in a variety of other locations.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFly-Away\u201d option offers a customizable \u201cfull completion\u201d path, with avionics, paint and interior services as well as flight training. Offering the fastest possible completion time, utilizing Lancair\u2019s in-house build process and expertise, the \u201cFly-Away\u201d program permits a new owner to fly their Mako home in as little as 5 to 6 months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo &#8211; At top,\u00c2\u00a0Lancair&#8217;s new Texas Builders Assistance Center awaits owner arrival with aircraft components ready for assembly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancair\u2019s first production Mako customer was welcomed last week to the newly-launched Builder Assistance Center at the company\u2019s Texas headquarters. Housed in a 10,000 square foot climate-controlled hangar, the Builder Assistance Center provides a dedicated work environment for Lancair kit owners to complete critical aircraft assemblies or the entire aircraft. Comprehensive in-house factory support, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lancair-Texas-Build-Center.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}