Scott Severen

Chairman of the Board / President

The son of a career Air Force fighter pilot, Scott Severen learned early about aviation as a lifestyle. He began building and flying hang gliders in 1973, joining USHGA, United States Hang Gliding Association and was one of the early pioneers to motorize hang gliders. In the early 1980s, he founded Lone Star Airpark which evolved to one of the largest facilities providing services and flight instruction for ultralights in the US, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Scott became a USUA, United States Ultralight Association AFI, Advanced Flight Instructor, Examiner, and Seminar Presenter. He assisted AOOA, the Airpark Owners and Operators Association as its first president.

In the early 1990s, he moved to Tennessee as president of TEAM Aircraft distributing aircraft kits in the US and 30 countries. He directed compliance processes to Canadian TP10141 and United Kingdom BCAR- S, and advanced market position from fourteenth to third.

In the mid-nineties Scott served as interim president of LAMA, the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association. He participated as a charter member of the Part 103 FAA ARAC, Aviation Rule-making Advisory Committee that eventually created the Light-Sport and Sport Pilot regulations. Scott volunteered as a director and interim president of USUA, United States Ultralight Association. He enjoyed supporting the industry as a contributing writer for Ultralight Flying! Magazine.

In 2004, Scott joined IndUS Aviation, and was Instrumental in the effort to be the first American designed aircraft to earn SLSA certification, and the first company to complete an ASTM SLSA audit. He is a voting ASTM F37 and F44 Committee member. In 2014 he was appointed to the EAA Ultralight & Light-Sport Aircraft Council.

In 2017, Scott was invited to serve on the board of LAMA and established a Technical Standards Committee for FAR Part 103 compliance efforts. In 2018, he took over as the North American importer for the Jabiru line of Light-Sport Aircraft and four seat aircraft kits. Scott presently owns and operates US Sport Planes, involved in LSA sales, brokerage, factory authorized maintenance and major structural repairs in Denton, Texas. Scott is a private pilot and has accumulated over 2,000 hours in powered and non-powered air vehicles, GA and Light-Sport Aircraft, with experience as flight conformance and test pilot for ultralight vehicles and Light-Sport Aircraft and enjoys authoring articles published in aviation publications.