Ultralight Airplanes|My T-Bird

This is the first airplane I owned. After I finished my flight training, I knew I had to have my own airplane, I was hooked.
My trainer ( Joe) had told me that he had owned a T-Bird prior to the Challenger that he gave me instructions in, and he had all good things to say about the T-bird ultralights.
He said it was one of the toughest built ultralights he had ever had the pleasure of flying and the flight characteristics were very forgiving. I had it in my mind that I wanted the T-Bird.
I looked at the long list of used ultralight planes on the internet and made a lot of phone calls, even went to look at a few of them .
I looked at several used T-Bird ultralights and found that they seemed to hold there value very well. Most of them were priced a lot higher than other brands of ultralights ,even though the kit price was in the same range as the other brands.
So then I contacted Golden Circle Air and got all the details on buying it new as a kit and how long they thought it would take someone to build it. I bought it as a kit in Nov., 2000, went to Iowa in a van and picked it up.
I spent about 2 months building the plane working on it most weekends and sometimes during the week in the afternoon when I got off work. My T-Bird made it's first flight in Feb. 2001.
I've bought several used ultralights since I built my T-Bird. I own 3 now ,actually they aren't ultralights anymore since the FAA changed the ruling on 2 place ultralight trainers all 2 place ultralights have to be registered and inspected . They are classified as light sport .
I've always done all the work on my own planes and even converted the T-Bird to light sport , but that's another story.