Because customers have been asking for them, Zenair has been developing a 2500 pound float kit for the GlaStar and Sportsman aircraft. The work is now complete, the company says, and parts are being made so that shipping of the float kits should commence in January 2011.

Thanks to a stroke increase bumping the four-cylinder, single-overhead-cam Subaru engine’s displacement to 2.6 liters, the current iteration of the Maxwell Propulsion firewall-forward package now produces 205 horsepower. For essentially the same weight as the previous, 165-hp setup, the new “stroker” engine should improve performance of the Glastar Sportsman airframe that is the company’s development [...]