Performance Aircraft was an American

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based in

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. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

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in the form of kits for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 355. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. The company was formed in 1995 with designer Jeff Ackland as president. It produced two all-composite construction designs, the two-seats in

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Performance Aircraft Formula GT and the

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-seat Performance Aircraft Legend and Turbine Legend. Performance Aircraft was sold to a new company, Legend Aircraft, in 2002 and Ackland created his own new company, Midwest Aerosport, to continue development of the Formula GT.

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