Great Plains Aircraft Supply Company

Great Plains Aircraft Supply CompanyCompany type| Experimental Aircraft Parts and Plans

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Industry| Experimental Aviation
Genre| Aircraft Manufacture
Founded| 1982
Founder| Steve and Linda Bennett
Headquarters|

Bennington, Nebraska

United States

Products| VW Engine Conversions and aircraft plans
Website| https://www.greatplainsas.com/

Great Plains Aircraft Supply Company is an American aircraft manufacturer of experimental plans based primarily on the Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Great Plains provides VW engine conversions for use in experimental aircraft.[1]

Great Plains has been selling and manufacturing conversions of VW engines since circa 1982. Among their offerings is the Great Plains Type 1 Front Drive engine series.[2]

Great Plains also helds the rights to the Sonerai series of aircraft designed by John Monnett until 2015, when they were acquired by Sonerai Works LLC, of Franksville, Wisconsin.[1][3] Previous owners of the design were INAV Experimental in 1987.

Sonerai IIL

## Aircraft

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Summary of aircraft built by  Model name  | First flight  | Number built  | Type

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Sonerai | 1974  | Number built 1400+  | 4130 Tube and fabric with aluminum wings
Easy Eagle 1 Biplane | 2010  | Number built 5+  | Tube fuselage and wood-and-fabric wings Biplane

## References

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1. ^ a b Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 104. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
2. ^ Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, pages 258-259. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ISSN 1368-485X
3. ^ "SoneraiWorks LLC is Now the Supplier of Plans and Model-Specific Parts for the Sonerai Series of Sport Aircraft," press release, as reprinted December 10, 2014, Kitplanes, retrieved November 11, 2020

## External links

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* http://www.sonerai.com
* http://www.easyeagle1.com