For nearly 50 years, Van’s Aircraft Inc. has offered a series of low-wing, all-aluminum kit planes popular with those who like to fly airplanes they assemble with their own hands. The Aurora, ...

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Sonex LLC is now accepting $15,000 deposits for its new SubSonex JSX-2T, a two-place amateur-built personal jet designed as the "lowest cost jet trainer ever." The estimated total cost for the kit, ...

Growing up in tiny Frederic, Wisconsin, the Karl brothers were always tinkering. Always building something — “or taking things apart, probably more often than building things,” says oldest brother ...

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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 ...