Quikkit

Quikkit was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, specializing in kitplanes. The company was founded in 1992 by Tom Scott to market the Glass Goose, an amphibious aircraft developed from the Aero Composites Sea Hawker design. Scott acquired the rights to the Sea Hawker after its previous manufacturer ceased operations and then substantially revised the design for Quikkit's product offering. The Glass Goose was intended for amateur aircraft construction and combined the characteristics of a kit-built aircraft with amphibious capability, allowing operation from both land and water. Available reference material identifies Quikkit's principal activity and product but provides little additional information about its production scale, sales, distribution network, corporate ownership, later management, or current operating status. Quikkit is therefore best understood as a small, specialized aircraft-kit manufacturer rather than a broadly distributed aviation brand. No reliable information is available here to establish whether the company remains active, when production ended, or whether the Glass Goose program continued under another owner.

Quikkit was established in 1992 in Dallas, Texas, by Tom Scott. Its business centered on the marketing and manufacture of kitplanes, a segment of general aviation in which customers assemble aircraft from kits, often for amateur-built or experimental-aircraft use. The company's principal known project was the Glass Goose, an amphibious aircraft. The design was not created entirely from scratch by Quikkit: it was a substantially revised version of the Aero Composites Sea Hawker. After the Sea Hawker's previous manufacturer ceased business, Scott purchased the rights to the design. Quikkit subsequently used those rights as the basis for its Glass Goose offering. This transition allowed the company to revive and modify an existing amphibious-aircraft concept under a new manufacturer and product identity. The available reference material does not specify the precise technical changes, production volume, pricing, certification status, sales territories, or the number of aircraft completed. It also does not document later corporate events, a successor company, an acquisition, or a confirmed closure of Quikkit. Consequently, the company's later history and present status remain uncertain. Its documented historical significance is primarily as a small American kitplane producer that brought a revised Sea Hawker-derived amphibious aircraft to market.

• 1992

  Quikkit founded

  [1]Quikkiten.wikipedia.org

  Tom Scott founded Quikkit in Dallas, Texas, to market the Glass Goose amphibious aircraft and operate as a kitplane manufacturer.

• Sea Hawker design rights acquired

  [1]Quikkiten.wikipedia.org

  Tom Scott acquired rights to the Aero Composites Sea Hawker design after its previous manufacturer ceased business, creating the basis for Quikkit's substantially revised Glass Goose aircraft.

A specialist kit-aircraft manufacturer focused on an amphibious aircraft derived from and substantially revising the Aero Composites Sea Hawker design.

• Amphibious kitplane

  Glass Goose

  The Glass Goose was Quikkit's principal known aircraft offering. It was an amphibious kitplane based on a substantially revised version of the Aero Composites Sea Hawker design. Quikkit obtained the underlying design rights after the former manufacturer ceased business and then marketed the revised aircraft for kit-built aviation. The available reference does not provide confirmed specifications, production totals, delivery dates, certification details, or commercial performance.

1. 1Quikkiten.wikipedia.org