http://ozreport.com/13.022#2

Phil at the Airborne factory clued me in why I might not have heard about the Airborne Sting 3 168, even though it was in development last year when I was here flying the prototype of the Airborne 3 154.

Of course, they never did send out an announcement of the 168. So that didn't alert me. They were just very quiet about the 168 and only made an "announcement" by putting its specs on the appropriate web page on the Airborne web site.

The issue was Airborne didn't have the tubing to build a bunch of new Sting 3 168's so they didn't want to encourage sales. Now they've received a big shipment of tubing in so they can build as many 168's as they need.

They have shipped sixty Sting 3 154's and four Sting 3 168's.