What is the difference between light sport and experimental light sport?

Joshua: What is the difference between light sport and experimental light sport?
was reading around and wonder what the difference between the two is.im 19 years old and I am always making wishlists. should I go for light sport or ultralight aircraft? looking for a 2 seater with enough stability to handle mild crosswinds. needs to be able to cover 200 miles between stops and needs to run on unleaded pump gas. any suggestions?
also, how hard is it to get an LAS license and what would be the expected cost?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Tracy L
If you want to travel with some level of comfort then a Light Sport wins over an “ultralight” Most ultralights are one person open air no cabin type aircraft. The LSA’s will be faster and enclosed.

Here is some good information for you from Sport Pilot https://www.sportpilot.org/learn/aircraft_index.html

You can see the Wiki on Ultralights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation

The difference between a certified LSA and an experimental LSA is “who built the aircraft” experimental are usually built by the owner/pilot where as certified LSA’s are built by the manufacturer such as Cessna. There are many choices of homebuilt as well as factory built aircraft. Check the https://sportpilot.org web site for some good information.

Answer by JetDoc
Well, since you can’t get a LEGAL (meets FAR Part 103 standards) ultralight in this country that seats two people, or holds more than 5 gallons of gasoline, I’m thinking you’ll have to go for the LSA (Light Sport Aircraft)