Joe Lisanke's Horizon 1

Award Winning Horizon 1 

I'm enjoying my Horizon very much and have about 350 hours of mostly local
flying on it now. After some sticky valve trouble with the cylinders about a
year ago, the engine and plane are running trouble free. I recently
installed the small Microair vhf comm radio and transponder and can now fly
vfr just about anywhere. I'd love to fly to Oshkosh one of these years, but
don't know what the weather delays would be like. Oh well, I'll just keep
mulling it over for now.

Take care,
Joe Lisanke
Horizon N116JL

This Horizon 1 was started in November of 1991 and completed in June 1998 after approximately 1500 hours of building.  Joe Lisanke can be emailed at lisankejm@gru.com for any further inquiries.  The finished weight of this plane ended up at 651 lbs.  Powered by a Continental 0-200 with a 3-blade, 68" diameter Warp drive.

  As of December 9, 1999, Joe has logged 95 hours total time on his plane.   He reports that the plane is very reliable.  Joe's wife has tagged along on some $100 hamburger trips that only cost $30 using his Horizon 1.

Note the Grove aluminum gear modification on this plane. 

Joe also modified his wing struts.  A one piece door and a skylight in the roof were also included in N116JL.

Joe reports that the windshield had to be replaced with .175" plexi after the thinner, original windshield cracked after some period of flight.  Overall, Joe reports that he is very happy with the way this airplane flies.