Azalea Aviation, based at Brooks County Airport, Quitman, Georgia, is home to the Saberwing Lines of kit aircraft, Spyder Corvair Aircraft Engines, and Firewall Forward components for many aircraft. Our Saberwing line of aircraft include Experimental Amateur Built, Light Sport, and "XF" Kits. Our aircraft kit are new to the aviation market, but are exciting and easy to build. Our Spyder Corvair Aircraft Conversion Engines have been flying in a variety of homebuilt aircraft for many years.
' Ingenuity in Experimental Aviation'
Azalea Aviation strives to provide excellence in our aviation products and service. We are on the front line of innovation in an exciting field of achieving simplicity of design in an increasingly complicated world. We pride ourselves in flying the engines, aircraft, and components we produce for our customers. This gives us real world information and feedback about our product reliability and use. Our goal is to have you flying quickly, safely, and affordably. To understand our methods in designing products read "The Basics" at the bottom of the page.
OSHKOSH 2024 !!!
Exciting Happenings from Oshkosh! See Our brief report below. More extensive information to come soon.
Saberwing Builder wins BIG at Oshkosh!
Jeremy Jabaay, Builder of Saberwing Kit #5 won the prestigious Silver Indy Award. Named the Reserve Grand Champion for Kit built aircraft N453AZ hit the marks for workmanship and attention to detail.
More to come soon on this magnificent bird...I have many more pics and a great story to tell. Good job Jeremy on a beautiful plane ! It was an honor to provide the marble from which a true sculptor can show his skills.
Bill's report....this year we drove to Oshkosh and camped in the campgrounds since I was still healing from the accident last month. This gave us the opportunity to spend time with suppliers and friends. We got to spend a lot of time with Jeremy and his lovely wife and kids. Many friends showed up to support him at the Awards Ceremony where he won the Lindy. Our trip was full and exciting including transmission failure on the truck (broken wire)...but it was a good trip. Good to be home and time to get back to work soon.
Pic of the Day for you....more in the KITS area.
We are adding a New Section to the Website called "KITS" that will have some new information and photos such as the above for you to look at. If link doesnt work check back later as we are updating site.
Deliveries: We have improved our production and are catching up on current kits at this time so Kits slots are open. See details in the KITS Section.
Dan's and his Saberwing after 1st Flight!
Bill's Pietenpol "The Phantom"
SABERWINGS ABOUND!
Saberwing Info Packet - PDF
ORDER YOUR KIT TODAY!
Dave's Saberwing is named K'fir and is painted in Israeli military drab. He received his Airworthiness Certificate and has begun his test flights. Pray for him as he progresses through this stage. For more on K'fir look at Dave's Video.....BOLD AS A LION.
SABERWING TRICYCLE GEAR PROTOTYPE is also our demo unit as an LSA bird to learn what we need to do to keep our Saberwing within LSA limits. With the 100 HP Spyder Engine we can cruise at 135 - just under LSA requirements. N100SW now has 75+ hours on it
DARCY FREEMAN'S SABERWING Now home in Texas after an exciting trip to OSHKOSH 2021. We did not make it there but Darcy was able to make this a first for him!
Congrats Darcy! Such a good Job!
WATCH DARCY BUILD HIS SABERWING..... Day 158- CLICK HERE
CHECK OUT THE SPYDER ENGINE WORKSHOPS ...Our Workshops are an opportunity for anybody who would like to learn more about corvair conversions and how we build our Spyder Engines. Watch some of the excitement from previous Workshops here as well. Come and join us for some engine building fun!Contact us about availability and schedule. Review this page as well...SPYDER ENGINE WORKSHOP
Video 1 SPYDER ENGINE WSHOP - NOV 2018 Video 2 - WORKSHOP MARCH 2018
Download your FREE Spyder Engine manuals at the Spyder Logo above.....
SABERWING KIT UPDATE!
GET YOUR $5000 Deposit in Today!
Get Your Saberwing Kit for $35,500.00 ! Click the PDF link below to look at basic information. Many Saberwings are now sold and kits are being delivered to customers. Click below for information about purchasing your Saberwing today!
Saberwing Info Packet - PDF
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SABERWING VIDEOS
Due to many requests we are going to be adding many videos about our Saberwing for all to enjoy!
CHECK OUT MOJOGRIP'S "Little Big Plane" Video #1
CHECK OUT MOJOGRIP'S "I flew in the Saberwing" Video #2
MOJOGRIP'S "Future of the Saberwing"
Update Synopsis for Azalea Aviation
Something new and exciting for those who wish to connect with other Corvair builders and pilots. One of our builders is introducing a new website and chat group for all Corvair pilots to use. It is an open and free service to any kind of corvair pilot, engine builder. He is still building it but the email chat is working. Check it out...join up...I did!
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TURBO 120 Updates
Saberwing Prototype with 120 Turbo and New three blade Sensenich propeller designed for our turbo installations. Constant speed version coming soon for further testing and perhaps production..?
We have done a bunch of testing lately and here are some preliminary results. I wrote it up in a little file you can click on to read. There is more info and pictures on our Facebook page if you want to follow along more. We will add a video soon as well.
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N203SW at Oshkosh 2018. Larry did a great job building his Saberwing.
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NEW PRODUCTS FOCUS PAGE!
We will be focusing on one of our products as we update our products pages. There will be descriptions, updates, and information that will help you understand our products better. This week we will focus on DISTRIBUTORS!
Turbocharging the Saberwing...
We started working on a turbocharger package for our Spyder Engine Conversions a few months ago and have completed about 120 hours of flight testing to date. We have seen a significant improvement in the climb and cruise performance of the Saberwing. Full details will be coming shortly. Check out the videos on our facebook page for some fun turbo stuff... Here is a sample video...https://youtu.be/I8Zmi0UFS6k
UPDATE: 2-20-2019 - We have been flying our turbo setup for two years now and about 250 hours. We are currently breaking down the engine partway to do an inspection of the heads/pistons/cylinders and part of the bottom end to see how the parts are holding up. So far everything looks like normal wear and other than an early ring issue on one piston all has held up well. The plan is to reassemble everything and contiue flying the engine another 250 hours before another check. Turbos can be harder on engines and we would like to see where we can improve or modify to have a dependable powerplant.
TURBO SABERWING Video #2 : Click Here.
CHECK OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR MORE !!!
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THE SABERWING
Click on picture for video...
How? Find new ways to use old ideas that are proven. Learn from those who have gone before and bring to market products that are easy to use, cost effective and reliable.
Why? If you don't have it, it won't break!" Simplicity allows for less parts count, better reliability and lower cost for purchasing and maintenance. This becomes apparent as you learn about our product line.
What? Our Products are currently focused on our SPYDER series of engines that will be continually upgraded. We service and provide parts for these engines. For installation purposes we have developed Firewall Forward Kits and components for some common aircraft kits currently on the market. We provide engine components and information for the "do it yourself" experimental Corvair engine builder. Aircraft kit components (gear, wing skins, wing tanks, and more) will become available soon.
FREE MANUALS !
Build Your own CORVAIR conversion or catch up on your learning. Click on our Spyder Engine Logo above for our FREE Manuals in PDF form.
The Spyder Corvair Conversion Engine Series are available now.
Click Here-SPYDER 100 HP CORVAIR AIRCRAFT CONVERSION ENGINE
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Lots more fun stuff on our FACEBOOK Page!
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CHECK OUT OUR NEW FLYING SABERWINGS!
CHECK OUT THE MAP BELOW!
Check our Q&A page: THE BOXER BRIEF
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EAA CHAPTER MEETINGS If your Chapter wants us to visit let us know!
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YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
SCENES FROM N120SW
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Dynamometer Engine Runs
IFB ENGINE ENGINE BUILD
CUSTOMER VIDEOS:
Larry's Saberwing
PICTURES:
Oshkosh 2014 Pics!
THE W8 WITTMAN TAILWIND
Thank you EAA- Click on the link below to read the new article in "The Experimenter" magazine from the EAA. Also check out some of the other photos from the shoot here..PHOTOS
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The Saberwing - Click on Pic
Click on Pic for Engine info...