Extra Aircraft

Extra Aircraft is a German manufacturer of light aircraft, set up in 1980 under the name Extra Flugzeugbau by the aerobatic pilot Walter Extra so that he could design and build his own competition aerobatic aeroplanes. It works from the airfield at Dinslaken in Hünxe, North Rhine-Westphalia, and its output was reported in 2013 as roughly three aircraft a month against a six-month order backlog. The product line splits into aerobatic types, the EA-200, EA-230, EA-260 and the long-running EA-300 family with its EA-330 and Extra NG developments, and touring types, the EA-330-LT, the six-seat pressurised EA-400 piston aircraft and the EA-500 turboprop. In the Transport Atlas it is the make that groups every Extra airframe, and it stands for a small specialist builder that became known mainly through unlimited-category aerobatic competition.