Challenger Advanced Ultralight & Light Sport Aircraft - National Ultralight Canada

National Ultralight Inc.
World's Leading Challenger Distributor

Challenger Light Sports - The Ultimate Challengers
The Company

National Ultralight Inc was founded in 1983 and since 1984 the company has been the exclusive distributor of the Challenger line of aircraft in Canada. Headquarters are at Edenvale Aerodrome, an hour north of Toronto, Ontario.

We have a collection of ten Challengers at Edenvale including five new
582 powered Challenger Light Sport XL-65's. Our fleet has just about every configuration, option and aftermarket accessory available including
wheels, tundra wheels, wheel/skis and amphibious floats!

National Ultralight is the world's leading Challenger distributor with over 600 Challengers in Canada, making it by far the most popular plane in its class.

The versatility of the Challenger line of aircraft is legendary: wheels, skis, floats, soaring. Local and transcontinental flights. Four seasons a year of use!

Challengers have vastly lower acquisition, operating and maintenance costs than all other comparable aircraft, even those with far fewer capabilities!

Owners enjoy a huge user community and an extensive support network.
All this has resulted in over 4,000 Challengers being shipped since 1983!

National Ultralight is also the world's leading distributor of Puddlejumper amphibious floats as well as Turbulence skis and wheel/skis for Challengers

National Ultralight is wholly owned by Bryan Quickmire. Bryan is a member of the Challenger Advisory Council formed by Quad City Aircraft Corp. The Council's mandate is to guide development of the Challenger line of aircraft.

Bryan earned his wings in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and went on to
acquire a commercial licence with multi-engine and instrument ratings,
an aerobatic instructor rating, plus glider and ultralight instructor ratings.

Bryan has logged some 5,000 hours as PIC of more than 60 types of aircraft.

Bryan's career as a computer executive took him to Boston for ten years.
He spent his time off traveling and competing in his Steen Skybolt biplane.

Bryan flew the Skybolt from Boston to San Diego - in the middle of winter!
And he competed in Advanced at International Aerobatic Club competitions!

Bryan returned to Canada to devote full time to Challenger distribution.
He has accumulated 2,400 hours traveling and instructing in Challengers
on amphibious floats, retractable wheel/skis, straight skis and tundra tires.

Bryan belongs to the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation where he has flown
and instructed in the 1943 DH82A Tiger Moth, 1943 Fairchild PT-26A Cornell,
1950 Bellanca 14-19 Cruisemaster, and other classics from the 40's and 50's.

As a volunteer at the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation he served
on the Board as a Director for ten years and as President for six years.
He was Senior Pilot responsible for training and checkrides for ten years.

Bryan volunteers with the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA).
He has flown on RCAF C-130 Hercules aircraft as a Spotter on actual missions.
He is Team Lead for the South Central Ontario RPAS Search & Rescue Unit.

Bryan is a Certified SAR RPAS Pilot / Instructor using the latest drone
technologies to train members in Beyond Visual Line Of Sight operations.
He is an Advanced Flight Reviewer for the CASARA National SAR School.

Bryan does drone training and flight reviews for individuals and enterprises.
He is affiliated with leading Transport Canada compliant RPAS schools.

Bryan holds the highest drone certifications in Canada and the United States:
Transport Canada sRPAS Advanced Operations Pilot Certificate
endorsed with the Advanced Flight Reviewer rating, and
FAA Part 107 sUAS Remote Pilot Certificate for Commercial Operations.
He is an Authorized Examiner for the Radio Operator Certificate - Aeronautical.

"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. has been a source of inspiration for
countless flyers. Bryan's column "A Hundred Things" is from "High Flight":

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth,

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds -- and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of ...

Bryan was inspired to spend his life in pursuit of those hundred things!

Bryan's column "A Hundred Things" in Canadian Flight magazine
offered an account, at times humorous - at times philosophical,
of his wanderings and adventures.

Bryan also wrote "Room To Manoeuvre", a column covering
aerobatics and thought-provoking issues in piloting,
which appeared in Aviation Quarterly magazine
along with his feature articles.

For a selection of magical meanderings and mystical musings click below:
A Hundred Things on All Manner of Things
A Hundred Things on Challenger Discoveries
Room To Manoeuvre on Aerobatics and Airmanship

And now for something completely different - poetry!

Sky Fever

by Bryan Quickmire

With apologies to
John Masefield!

I must go down to the shore again, to the joining of sea and sky,
And all I ask is a small plane, and a stick to steer it by;
And the prop's kick, and the wind's song, and little waves curling,
And a blue sheen on the sea's face, and puffy clouds swirling.

I must go up in the air again, for the call of flying wide,
Is a loud call and a clear call, that can not be denied;
And all I ask is a windless day, with golden sun rays falling,
And the gentle swishing of the spray, and the sea-birds calling.

I must go now to explore again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, when the wind's no whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn, from a laughing fellow rover,
And quiet sleep and sweet dreams, when the long trip's over.