Madhatter Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Unfortunately Flight Design aircraft are being manufactured in southeastern Ukraine which is now under seige by Russia. Flight Design was in the process of setting up manufacturing operations in Czechoslovakia however all the equipment is still in Ukraine. I guess you can figure the rest out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennM Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Do you remember the town name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmi Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Kherson in southeastern part. Seems to be already under Russian occupation . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kherson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Will this impact CT critical parts replacement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmi Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 48 minutes ago, airhound said: Will this impact CT critical parts replacement? There is now way of knowing at this point … could be a non event (from that point of view) or could require total reboot in some other place, probably within EU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 49 minutes ago, airhound said: Will this impact CT critical parts Yes, I would think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, Warmi said: There is now way of knowing at this point … could be a non event (from that point of view) or could require total reboot in some other place, probably within EU. FD will be down for quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Aerojones produces parts. Remember that they are fully licensed and equipped to produce for the Asian market, looks like we'll be relying on them for a while. https://www.aerojones.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmi Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Actually I was wrong , they are about to attack Kherson so I guess it will depend how long it takes and how destructive it turns out to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Koerner Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 At 12:20 am PDT Sunday CNN reported: "Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Ministry of Defense spokesperson, said Kherson and Berdyansk "were completely blocked" by Russian forces." That suggests to me, at that time, the city of Kherson had not fallen. However, he also claimed, "the Chornobayivka (Chernobayevka) airfield near Kherson had also (?) been brought under control." I believe this is what Google Earth refers to as the Kherson Int'l Airport. If the Russian statement is true (and many proclamations during this conflict have not been) then they are now in possession of the molds and tooling used to make my CT2k. Google Earth shows a Ukrainian helicopter base co-located on the field, which may have been their target (rather than the CT factory). On a lighter note, if you go back in time on Google Earth to 9/2009 you can see 2 CTs on the ramp in front of the terminal building: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco01 Posted March 1, 2022 Report Share Posted March 1, 2022 This is the official information received today from FD HQ: Dear Friends of Flight Design, As the whole world has seen, the country of Ukraine is currently being attacked by the full might of the Russian Federation led by President Putin. We are amazed and proud of the people of Ukraine for the way they are standing up for their freedom, their country and democracy. From of the beginning of the war, the town Kherson where the primary production site of Flight Design aircraft is located, has been part of the military action. However, the town is still under Ukrainian government control. We are in regular contact with our employees and thankfully at this point no one from our staff has been harmed. We stand with Ukraine and our employees and will help and support them in any possible way. The current situation leaves us no other choice than to immediately increase our manufacturing in the Czech Republic, where already the Flight Design EASA approved production organization is located. The F2 is a digitally designed airplane and we have most of the molds already in Czech Republic and Germany as we had started to increase production in Czech last year. Our recent experience shows that beginning deliveries from Czech will not take very long. We have also invited our Ukrainian colleagues to come there as soon as possible with their families and work with us there. The Kherson Ukraine production lines will continue to run as long as we can get materials in and airplane parts out. People from the Lindig Group as the main shareholder of Flight Design general aviation and people from Flight Design have started a fundraising campaign for donating money to our employees in Ukraine. If you want to join our campaign to help them, please contact us by sending an email to: helpforua@flightdesign.com. We stand with Ukraine, we are Ukraine, Your Flight Design Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted March 2, 2022 Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 War is stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunkworks85 Posted March 2, 2022 Report Share Posted March 2, 2022 https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/march/02/aircraft-manufacturers-with-facilities-in-ukraine-under-threat?=utm_source=News&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=RSS Link to aopa article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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