Performance Aircraft

{{Short description|American aircraft manufacturer}}

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| type = Privately held company

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| hq_location_city = Olathe, Kansas

| hq_location_country = United States

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| key_people = Jeff Ackland

| industry = Aerospace

| products = Kit aircraft

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Performance Aircraft was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Olathe, Kansas. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 355. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. {{ISBN|0-9636409-4-1}}

The company was formed in 1995 with designer Jeff Ackland as president.{{cite journal |title=Hot Line |journal=Sport Aviation |date=August 1995 |page=8 |publisher=EAA}} It produced two all-composite construction designs, the two-seats in side-by-side configuration Performance Aircraft Formula GT and the tandem-seat Performance Aircraft Legend and Turbine Legend.

Performance Aircraft was sold to a new company, Legend Aircraft, in 2002 and Ackland created his own new company, Midwest Aerosport, to continue development of the Formula GT.{{cite journal |last1=Cox |first1=Jack |title=Formula GT – Air touring in grand style |journal=Sport Aviation |date=May 2003 |pages=28–34 |publisher=EAA}}