Air Gyro have started a couple of threads about the AG915 on the PRA Facebook pages - I had some dialogue with Alvaro in an attempt to learn more about this new but familiar looking product - I've copied and pasted the more illuminating thread below - hopefully it adds to the sum of knowledge
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Steven May Is this the Fly Argo product, ie Xenon IV ?
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Alvaro Tovar Steven May is the same manufacture, we got the kits from the same company that build all those products. Thing is we don’t want to deal anymore with Polish gyroplane companies because the after sale support and guarantees don’t work well here. So Airgyro will be fully responsible for the costumer support and rotax have international cover. Also this way we lower the price for the US market. The best of Poland with the best support here at home.
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Steven May Thanks Alvaro - so if I understand you correctly the AG915 is in essence a Xenon IV - CA built their Xenon IV product at Piotrokow Trybunal in Poland - I understand that Fly Argo now have the rights to market/sell this product and they now supply you with kits - have I got this correct ? I understand that CA built approx 25 examples of Xenon IV before they relocated from Poland to Malta.
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Alvaro Tovar Steven May yes and no, yes the cabins and parts are built in Piotrkow by MBL. But we have no relation or connection to Fly Argo because they have so many legal issues. And they have the rights only for the name !! There is no rights or patent for this model, that’s because we can buy as it is. Looks like they’re trying again to confuse the public saying that. But again they only have the right for names ! Our main goal is to protect the US market because that company in court can loose all the power to produce, so if someone buy there is a big chance all the costumer can be without support again as happened before.
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Steven May Thanks for the clarity - OK so sounds like we now have three companies offering the familiar twin boom SxS cabin gyro that we have over the years come to know as the Xenon-Zen1-Tercel-GyroX-AG915 - the long established AAT and the more recent Fly Argo and AG. The gyros featured in your recent vidoes are CA Xenon IV ( for example SP-XNON ), built in 2016 and registered in Poland with a CA serial number. Question - are there any kit built AG915 now assembled in the US and flying - I keep a good eye on the daily FAA updates and haven't seen any so far.
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Alvaro Tovar Steven May yes 3 kits are on the way now will be here at the end of April, and yes there are a number of manufactures offering kind of the same product, our main difference is we are base in the USA, we are responsible for all support here so you don’t have to deal with Poland and the prices are on US dollars. We will move operations to Florida at the end of the month feel free to pass by and fly !!
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Steven May OK so kits are en route to the USA but at this moment there are no examples up and flying in the US. I'm not sure you do yourselves any favours by posting photos and videos of gyrocopters that are not AG915 - potential customers are likely to be confused. Your black "AG915" SP-XNON that features in your marketing was built by Celier in 2016 - ironically the very same gyro appears on Fly Argo - Argo Helicopters marketing for example
https://www.facebook.com/argohelicopters/ It all seems less than clear. I will keep an eye on the FAA register for your first three US kits.
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Alvaro Tovar Steven May yes is the same we use to add the 915 to test and be able to promote.