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"Skycraft appears to have folded as a company and the designing company Spacek no longer lists Skycraft as a USA dealer of the SD-1 Minisport, and has since appointed a new distributor in the States. Should the article have a section on Skycraft's history and efforts to bring the SD-1 Minisport under LSA certification? I ask because the article as it is currently written suggests that Skycraft is still taking orders or is in some way an official point of contact in the USA for the Spacek SD-1 Minisport. Also noticeably missing are the fatal crash of N123SD in Spanish Fork, Utah and non-fatal crash of G-CIMA in Cambridgeshire, UK - though I am unsure if that should be included or not. I'm personally a novice at Wikipedia editing and I leave this up to more qualified editors to discuss."

--Goney3 (talk) 00:45, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your note here! The status of SkyCraft seems a bit uncertain. The company website seems to be still active as of today. I did check the Spacek sro website and it is true that SkyCraft is not listed there as a "dealer", but the SkyCraft website itself describes the company as a manufacturer and not a dealer, so I wouldn't necessarily expect to see them on the list of dealers. Do we know if they are still building Minisports or not? If not then we can show that they are not then the section about SkyCraft can be rewritten to show their historical connection to the design.

Of note the latest FAA LSA listing from 12 January 2016 still doesn't show the Minisport as an accepted LSA, so that is not a good sign.

As far as accidents go, the inclusion standard is at WP:AIRCRASH. In short, for light aircraft, we don't include all accidents, just those that result in lasting effects (beyond aircraft damage and deaths), such as design changes, fleet groundings, or in the case of certified types, Airworthiness Directives, service bulletins or similar. - Ahunt (talk) 15:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]