MILTON, FL - A Brazilian airplane manufacturer is looking at the Florida panhandle as the next place to bring a training and assembly plant.

They make a "light sport": A new class of plane that promises to bring private aviation closer to the common man and dozens of new jobs to our area.

Channel Three's Dan Thomas caught up with company officials today in Milton and has this story, you'll see only on Three.

This is the Paradise P-1 and if what these people are saying about it is true it could revolutionize the way you look at private aviation.

Bert Motoyama/Owns a Paradise: "I retired in January and decided that rather than just sit around and be a couch potato I thought I'd take up flying again."

Bert Motoyama used to be a private pilot but hadn't flown in about 10 years.

He picked the paradise because it's a special class of plane called light sport. There's no medical requirement to fly just a valid driver's license and 20 hours of training.

Dan Thomas/Reporter: "This is the side I get in on?"

Joe: "You're the pilot."

Thomas: "Oh, I'm the pilot huh?"

I decided to give a try.

Dan Thomas/Reporter: "Just crank it like a car?"

I'd never flown but within a few minutes I was throttling up and pulling back on the yoke.

It was surprisingly smooth and much easier than I'd expected.

Christopher Regis/Paradise Sales Director: "The goal is to have the largest light sport training facility in the country."

Christopher Regis's father started the company. He thinks the Florida panhandle is the perfect place to enter the us market.

Christopher Regis/Paradise Sales Director: "This is the cradle of Naval Aviation. Florida, there's no better weather and the labor pool is here."

At the company's start it would bring in about 20 jobs and depending on sales it could bring in another 50 people a month from around the country to get their sport pilot license.

Bert Motoyama/Owns a Paradise: "It's affordable for people like me that are not necessarily rich."

If all goes as planned the planes could be assembled in the area as soon as this January.Possible Airplane Manufacturing Plant In Milton