{"id":3250,"date":"2016-05-11T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:00:55","slug":"australias-4th-a32-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s 4th A32 arrives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3253\" style=\"width: 637px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3253\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3253\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"A32 #011 being prepared after shipping\" width=\"627\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2230-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A32 #011 being prepared after shipping<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbat.com.au\/a32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aeroprakt A32 &#8216;Vixxen&#8217;<\/a> has been nothing short of phenomenal, since the first demonstrator arrived in July 2015. No less than 12\u00a0have been ordered through Foxbat Australia, including\u00a0one to an Australian subsidiary company operating in South Africa. The surprising\u00a0thing is that sales of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbat.com.au\/a22ls_foxbat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A22LS &#8216;Foxbat&#8217;<\/a> have remained unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent A32 arrival &#8211; serial number 011 &#8211; is in &#8216;Pumpkin Orange&#8217;, a colour which is becoming more popular as an alternative to the more common yellow, white, red and blue. The lucky owner lives out Broken Hill way and after familiarisation training &#8211; courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawlermicrolights.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Hatswell at Gawler<\/a> (north of Adelaide) &#8211; he will be flying the A32 largely on farm duties.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is due for some sprauncy\u00a0decals in the next couple of days and will hopefully be signed off sometime next week for test flying. Although weather around Melbourne has been a bit tempestuous lately!<\/p>\n<p>After the very first A32 arrived here in Mazda Spirited Green Metallic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3SMsIRESZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(have a look at the pre-delivery flight test video here: A32 check)<\/a> it seems that A32 \u00a0owners like their colours &#8211; the next two A32 deliveries, due later in May, are yellow and white, with a bright green one (but not metallic) due early in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response to the Aeroprakt A32 &#8216;Vixxen&#8217; has been nothing short of phenomenal, since the first demonstrator arrived in July 2015. No less than 12\u00a0have been ordered through Foxbat Australia, including\u00a0one to an Australian subsidiary company operating in South Africa. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[34,464,643,792,829,1048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}