The FAA has approved light sport certification of the $159,000 American Legend FloatCub amphibious aircraft. The aircraft is based on a lightweight model of the Legend Cub and is equipped with Baumann Floats.
The aircraft features a simple, repositionable landing gear. The first copy of the aircraft has traveled from Texas to Oshkosh, Wis., to Maine and back to the Sulphur Springs, Texas, factory. At the Thirty-sixth Annual International Seaplane Fly-In in Greenville, Maine, last month, the American Legend Amphibious FloatCub took two awards including “Best Take-Off” and the coveted “Cutest Darn Aircraft” award.
The aircraft has doors on both sides of the cockpit and uses an electric starter, thus eliminating the precarious step of hand-propping and maneuvering back to the cockpit. The first customer aircraft is currently in production.
Baumann has manufactured lightweight and medium-weight FAA-certified floats since 1989.
