Personally l have had good support from Mike and the guys at Europa. They are
a bit slow and this is an area they could improve on. So far l have not parted
company with any of my money. My Europa is up and flying and the few spares
l have inquired about were not available off the shelf (spats and a new panel).
Having been well and truly bitten by other light aircraft companies l try
nowadays
to make some basic checks on the financial status of the companies l deal
with. Having been in the aviation business (large and small) for 30+ years it
is usually evident what a company's status is by looking at it's balance sheet
and FY accounts. As for Swift TG who own Europa l would have expected to see
significant reserves to enable them to take on Europa and invest sufficiently
- typically a VLA aircraft certification will cost a minimum of 10-20 units,
thats around 1M-2M. There are many features on the Europa which will need to
be changed to meet VLA (or even ELA1). See Liberty and how it changed (for the
worse) from Ivan's original.
To this end please see attached Europa and Swift data (available to all from
www.companieshouse.co.uk). You can make you own mind up what it means.
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http://forums.matronics.com//files/swift_technology_group_aa_2009_803.pdf
http://forums.matronics.com//files/europa_aviation_2009_aa_156.pdf
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