LA25 DISCONTINUED

[Bob Disharoon]

I just searched tower hobby and the LA25 has been discontinued..does anyone have further info on this?..thanx, Bob

[Crist Rigotti]

The blue one is discontinued.  The natural is in stock.

[Les Akre]

Hello

I have some information.

Some of the links on the Tower site are a bit messed up. I found info for the O.S. 25 LA engines on the link for .15 size engines. O.S. is in the process of replacing some, or all of the LA blue finish engines, with natural finish versions. If you scroll through a bunch of Tower's engine size listings, you will see that this is the case.

As far as I've been able to determine, the .15 and the .25 are going natural finish. I don't know if O.S. is continuing this with any of the other sizes.

[Bob Disharoon]

OK..thanx, guys. I figured there would be no way they  discontinue such a popular item.

[Jim Oliver]

Per my phone discussion with Tower customer service, all the blue LA engines are gone!

Natural finish will now be supplied for the LA series as new stock arrives.  What took so long???

Jim

[Glen Wearden]

But..........I LIKE BLUE!! Glen

[Jerry Olson]

Go figure, I have two of  25 LAS' with the blue finish, but my preference is the natural finish.

[Paul Smith]

I wonder if anybody has an inside information?  Is this just a "Tower thing" or does it go back to the source?

In searching Tower's menus, there seems to be an end to most-all small (airplane) engines in the .10-.15-.25 range.  Maybe production capacity is being diverted to cars and helicopters.

[Steve Holt]

I wonder if anybody has an inside information?  Is this just a "Tower thing" or does it go back to the source?

In searching Tower's menus, there seems to be an end to most-all small (airplane) engines in the .10-.15-.25 range.  Maybe production capacity is being diverted to cars and helicopters.

Can you say "electric power" ?
Steve

[Paul Smith]

Electric,,, maybe so...

I've got a lifertime supply of LA 25's, I'm just concerned about ongoing participation in our new LA 25 racing events.   Worse yet, the "AX" series seems to have fallen off the menu, too.

My best case scenario is that at newer, better 15's & 25's are in the pipelines.

This stuff happened now and again when we were hungry for G21/35's in Combat.

[Jim Thomerson]

There is an announcement about this in the current issue Flying Models.

[Wayne Collier]

Tower lists this replacement.

                           www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXPUE2&P=SM


             Didn't know how to make a link but when I copied and pasted the above address it took me to the page with the new natural finish OS .25 LA S.  Scroll down and find a replacement backplate and needle if you don't like the remote needle.