SONEX

NEW SONEX KIT

2 Sonex aircraft owned by HAWK mentors, with winglet wing tip extensions designed and crafted by HAWK General Manager Tim Allen Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
2 Sonex aircraft owned by HAWK mentors, with winglet wing tip extensions designed
and crafted by HAWK General Manager Tim Allen
Courtesy & © Bruce Erickson, Photographer
A builder in Cheyenne, WY made a partially completed Sonex kit available to HAWK for a price we could not refuse. Two of our members have Sonex aircraft, so this is a craft with which we are quite familiar. It comes with a Jabiru motor mount, but no motor. Coincidentally, a couple years ago another builder in Green River, WY gave us a Jabiru motor with 500 to 600 hours on it. We hope to make an aircraft from these two transactions. Since AirVenture 2020 has been cancelled due to the Pandemic, our Junior Members missed their out-of-town trip this summer. As a substitute trip, General Manager Tim Allen is this month taking a half dozen of them in the bus on the overnight trip (including camping at the airport) to pickup this kit and bring it home.

HAWK team retrieving our partially assembled SONEX. We purchased the SONEX for a new project. Courtesy & © Tim Allen, Photographer
HAWK team retrieving our partially assembled SONEX. We purchased the SONEX for a new project.
Courtesy & © Tim Allen, Photographer
HAWK team camp, on retrieval mission for SONEX Courtesy & © Tim Allen, Photographer
HAWK team camp, on retrieval mission for SONEX
Courtesy & © Tim Allen, Photographer