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Building vs. fixing

Somewhere during every aircraft project, a builder faces a quiet moment of truth. It might happen while drilling a hole in a ...
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Kit building then and now

It’s a familiar scene, replayed in garages and workshops across the country for the better part of a half-century: the arrival of an airplane kit. For some, it's a stack of boxes and a long tube or ...
HPU 210 uses a Kawasaki motorcycle engine combined with an electric motor and batteries VoltAero’s new HPU 210 hybrid-electric powertrain could be used by people building their own light aircraft.
MADISON COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - A retired farmer has completed a project that lasted more than a decade. Mike Nahrstedt built his own aircraft from a kit called a Zenith 750 STOL. “For such a little ...
Today's Top Pick from Aircraft For Sale is a 2007 Lancair ES-P, a four-place, amateur-built experimental aircraft. The ES-P model is distinguished by its pressurization and turbocharging, allowing ...
Jessica Cox, the first licensed armless pilot, collaborated with an Ocean County aviation group to construct the first ...