Wren are now selling ready-built engines through selected Jet dealers in the UK. Several of them, in particular Ali (Al's Hobbies) and Alan Cardash (Boomerang Jets), have asked a number of times over the last two or three years about selling Wren engines with their airframe kits, but until now we weren't making enough engines to be able to supply them. Those of you who have been following Wren's fortunes over the last few years will know that we lost our supplier of the most critical part, the turbine wheels, and that we had great difficulty finding another foundry who could cast them to the full Aerospace certification. Even when we had found a supplier, there were still issues of quality and quantity to be overcome. However, at last everything is resolved, we have plenty of wheels here and we can say with confidence that we can build and supply the engines.

We don't want to lose touch with the customers and will still supply any of our engines direct from the factory. The MW54 kits are only available from Wren - not dealers - because we believe that people who are building an engine kit should be able to talk to us without going through a third party.

We feel it is a compliment to our quality and integrity that the Jet dealers want to sell our engines. It has been very frustrating for us to see people selling our competitors' engines as "packages" with their kits, especially as the retailers had made it very clear that they would be equally happy to sell our engines as well, or even instead. We believe that the Wrens are the best small engines on the market - we were the pioneers in this area and have more experience than anyone else - and it pained us to realise that people were buying other small engines as part of a "package deal". Last year there was nothing we could do about it, but now we are able to respond. We hope it will increase our sales and we assure everyone that they will still get "Wren Service" even if the engine is bought through a dealer because we are only supplying through people we know and respect.

However, there will still be occasions when a particular part is out of stock .... sorry "siclick". I know you are waiting for a FOD screen as an upgrade for your 44. We underestimated the impact the FOD screens for the 44 would have, and so many people wanted them as upgrades on the existing 44s that we ran out more quickly than expected. There is a new batch - double the size of the first - in the machine shop and it has taken longer than usual to process them because the design has undergone some minor changes to make it even better. To everyone who is waiting for one, thank you for your patience.

Sara Parish
Wren Turbines