An Oshkosh manufacturer dedicated to homebuilt aircraft is shutting down. Sonex, LLC owner Mark Schaible announced the decision on Friday……… Sonex was founded in 2003 and sold aircraft kits. It ...
The family of a 4-year-old girl who died when the homebuilt airplane she was riding in crash-landed in a parking lot along the Oregon coast has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the company that ...
Hosted on MSN

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 ...
Editor's note: This is part two of a two-part series. Pilots will take to the air from Grider Field today, heading home to a number of destinations at the conclusion of the weekend's formation flight ...
On the home page of the Van’s Aircraft website, there is a replica of a Hobbs Meter. It doesn’t count hours; however, it counts aircraft completions…the number of RVs that have been finished and flown ...
Undoubtedly, some of you will think that building your own airplane is the weird part of this story. There are actually a large number of people that want to get into the private pilot game, but can't ...