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Back in the 1970's a father, son and grandson became involved in a fledgling industry. That industry would be later identified as ultralight aviation, and the craft they introduced to the ultralight community was the Hi Nusky. In the early 80's Wayne Richter, his wife Nina and his son Kerry would open Advanced Aviation where they designed and manufacturer a series of aircraft.

These included the very successful Cobra A and B single place tube and wire fabric covered ultralights, and the King Cobra two place ultralight trainer. Editors Note: Over 1500 Cobra model aircraft were sold.

In the mid 80's Advanced Aviation took over production of the single place Buccaneer XA, and two place Buccaneer II for Highcraft AeroMarine. While producing these Kerry then designed the revolutionary single place strut braced, amphibious Buccaneer SX. Then with a little spare time on his hands, six weeks to be exact, Kerry and Phil Lockwood of Lockwood Aviation designed and built the strut braced, high wing Explorer, for introduction at the E.A.A. Sun and Fun Convention in Florida.

At the same time Wayne and his wife quietly and efficiently kept the business end of the operation working successfully. So successfully that a number of interested parties approached them to take over ownership. So Advanced Aviation was sold with the Richter family staying on to help the new owners during the transitional phase with the design, modification, and production of the Advanced line of aircraft.

It was during this time the Kerry and one of Advanced Aviation's long time employees Paige Linette were contacted by a group of investors who wanted to design a series of aircraft to be produced outside of the U.S. that would be marketed world wide. With the transitional phase at Advanced Aviation complete Kerry and Paige looked forward to the challenge of being involved in the design, and construction of a series of new aircraft.

According the Kerry's father Wayne it was right after he had finished the projects in Costa Rica, that he asked Kerry "what have you got left for us?" "Kerry just smiled and said "Dad don't worry I've got it covered!" In June of 1992 the SeaRey concept starting taking form and in November the first prototype was flying.

It was then introduced to the general public at Sun N Fun and the demand was so great that according to Wayne "it took us nearly two years to fill the orders taken at the show, and as of 2006 over 400 kits have been delivered to customers and are flying world wide."

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