the Bend plant for builder-assist construction as well as pursue type certification of the Epic LT, a project which the original company owners had started, but not completed. Doug King became CEO, as an unpaid volunteer in 2010, following the bankruptcy. He was the CEO of the LT Builders Group, and had owned several transaction processing and computer services businesses and had revitalized operations of Syncro Aircraft. King had an incomplete LT in the plant and wanted to get it completed and decided to help get the company turned around and profitable, with an aim of certifying the LT design. At AirVenture on 31 July 2010 King announced that the company was ready to take orders for the Epic LT kit aircraft at that time and that 11 aircraft were in plant, being completed by their owners. In November 2011, a Russian, Vladislav Filev, the owner of S7 Airlines, visited the Epic plant. An enthusiastic private pilot, he was looking for his ideal personal aircraft. King took him for a demo flight in an LT and Filev decided to buy the company to pave the way for type certification for the LT. Filev's company, Engineering LLC, became the owner of Epic in March 2012 for US$200M and announced its certification plans for the LT design. As part of this plan the company entered into negotiations with Cessna in December 2012 to buy the former Columbia Aircraft plant that Cessna then owned in Bend. The company indicated that it expected to hire 40-80 new employees in 2013 as part of the certification effort and to expand kit production. By October 2014 the company reported that it had 60 orders for the E1000. At that time, the company forecast selling 50 aircraft per year. E1000 era The company's E1000 single engine turboprop had its first flight on 19 December 2015. The design encountered a set-back in the summer of 2018 when it was discovered that it was slower than its promised cruise speed. The problem was traced to ram air recovery in the engine intake design. This design had been dictated by certification requirements and the engine manufacturer's approval, over the non-certified LT intake design. Redesign and flight testing added six months to the process. On 31 March 2019 Filev's wife, Natalia Fileva, was killed in the crash of an Epic LT on approach to the Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport. Fileva was one