Ron Staep’s New LS1 Arrives

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Congratulations to Ronald Staeps on the purchase of his LS1 glider. After an 8 day road trip across 7 countries, almost 4000 km and 3 ferry crossings he arrived back with his latest addition to Gowran. The LS1 was previously based in Vienna (Wiener Neustadt). Ron is looking forward to lots of fun in Ireland with the LS1. Ron extends his thanks to Liam Keegan who joined him on this adventure, “our trip was good fun!”.
The LS1 is a beautiful plane and Ron already had a 2:45 Hour flight in Vienna while Liam took the chance to go for a spin as a passenger in a DG500…

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