FK-12 Comet Special Edition - A New Comet

B&F working with G2B Consulting are currently building a batch of 10 Special Edition Comets.

The FK-12 Comet Special Edition will feature,


A Rear Wingspar made of Carbon Fibre for increased strength

Revised Tailplane Shape

New Aileron Design

New Streamlined Canopy

A Widened Main Undercarriage

High Quality Cockpit Interior

Optional Smoke System

Special Edition Paint Colour Scheme

This photo shows the new Carbon Fibre rear wingspar on the FK-12 Comet Special Edition

The first FK-12 Comet Special Edition is due to be rolled out at Speyer, Germany on 18th December 2009.


For more details please contact


info@fk-leichtflugzeuge.de

or visit

http://www.fk-leichtflugzeuge.de/Downloads/Comet_limited_project_description.pdf

or visit

http://www.comet-special-limited.com/index.html


Steve

Bullingen Fly In - Comet gathering

The "Fly - In" at Bullingen airfield in Belgium was held over the weekend of the 1st & 2nd of August 2009.

It attracted at least 14 different FK-12 Comet aircraft - a fantastic gathering of Comets and all in beautiful summer sunshine too.

D-MSLK and OO-F77

I'd like to thank Freddy Ceulemans and Leo Kraus for this report and photos from 1st August - many thanks.

The FK-12 Comets at Bullingen ( EBBN ) were

OO-F77 ( Belgian )
F-JWXP ( French )

plus a large number from Germany

D-MEJH
D-MFKD
D-MLWM
D-MOJE
D-MOVE
D-MPHK
D-MSLK
D-MSSS
D-MVCW
D-MVML
D-MWEW
D-MYLG


The following photos from Bullingen have been kindly supplied by Freddy Ceulemans.

F-JWXP - a "new" Comet - I think this is c/n 9 the former D-MRKL

D-MYLG c/n 10

D-MSLK c/n 21 wears a "Swiss Bucker" type colour scheme

D-MVML - c/n 2 an early historic Comet

D-MOVE arriving at Bullingen

D-MOJE c/n 4 another veteran Comet painted in a pre WW2 USAAC type colour scheme

Video of Comets at Bullingen - includes some Comet "formation" flying too

FK-12 Comet Production Resumes

June 2009 - Good news from FK Lightplanes !

They have announced the restarting of FK-12 Comet kit production from Summer 2009, with limited production of factory built aircraft from Autumn 2009.

The factory has also just delivered a brand new FK-12 Comet to Finland registration OH-U601 - this is c/n 084


See this LINK for more details on the FK website

New FK-12 Comet at Aero 2009 - D-MVCW

Good to see that FK Lightplanes displayed new build FK-12 Comet D-MVCW at Friedrichshafen Aero 2009 last week.


See photo of D-MVCW on display at the trade show - click here


This is a new build aircraft with construction number 083 - the newest Comet I know of. With thanks to FK-Lightplanes for this information.