Performance Aircraft was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Olathe, Kansas.

The company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction.

[1] The company was formed in 1995 with designer Jeff Ackland as president.

[2] It produced two all-composite construction designs, the two-seats in side-by-side configuration Performance Aircraft Formula GT and the tandem-seat Performance Aircraft Legend and Turbine Legend.

[1] Performance Aircraft was sold to a new company, Legend Aircraft, in 2002 and Ackland created his own new company, Midwest Aerosport, to continue development of the Formula GT.