The Aircraft

GlaStar N-600FY, otherwise affectionately known as 'GOOFY' has the distinction of getting its airworthiness certificate on the day of the 100th anniversary of Flight, 17 December 2003.

It is a EAA Centennial airplane - built during the 100th anniversary of flight year - but is somewhat unique in being completed and signed off ready to fly on the actual 100th anniversary day.

Taking 7 years to build, and with over 4000 hrs build time N-600FY is a very comprehensively equipped homebuilt airplane. Just some of the specification is outlined below.

N-600FY is a truly Anglo-American airplane. The kit was manufactured by Stoddard Hamilton (now Glasair Aviation) in Arlington WA in 1996 and crossed the Altantic to England where the first five years of the build took place in the first class facilties of the Aero Engineering Department of Cambridge Regional College. In 2001 the completed airframe crossed the Atlantic yet again to Spruce Creek Fly-in at Daytona Beach FL. Here the airplane went into pilot Steve Wood's garage where the remaining work was completed with the help of many Spruce Creek friends. Indeed, without this support there would have been no way that the airplane could have been completed by the 100th anniversary of flight, such was the complexity of the build and the equipment fitted.

Intended from the outset for long distance flights, 'GOOFY' has extended range tanks fitted in the wings.

The airplane is fully equipped for IFR flight, including a King KLN 94 IFR certified GPS, digital ILS, TruTrak two-axis autopilot and Blue Mountain G3 EFIS, and much more .