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Homebuilt Aircraft Directory
2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
We list 349 fixed-wing aircraft built from kits and give special designation to Light-Sport legal designs (A-F); compiled by Julia Downie.

2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
Continued (F-P).

2005 Kit Aircraft Directory
Continued (P-Z).

Aircraft Company Cross-Reference
You can find the company if you know the name of the design.

Flight Reports
The Spacemaker: Velocity's Dash 5
Velocity Aircraft's XL model beefs up with added seas and baggage space; by Dave Higdon.

Shop Talk
Riveting Basics for the Non-Metal Builder
This long-trusted airplane construction process is simpler than you think; by Ishmael Puentes.

How Piston Engines Make Power, Part 8
In the last part of this series, "Turbo Tom" Wyatt concludes with a discussion on supercharging.

Gas Welding for the Non-Welder, Part 1
Zenith 601 builder Scott Laughlin presents a beginner's guide to basic gas welding; by Scott Laughlin.

Aero 'Lectrics
How to build temporary antennas for composite and metal aircraft; by Jim Weir.

Designer's Notebook
Wind Tunnel
The Cooper-Harper scale offers a quantitative way to rate flying qualities; by Barnaby Wainfan

Exploring
Around the Patch
Readers respond to the Top 20 Most Influential article; by Brian E. Clark.

What's New
Electronic ignition from E-MAG ignitions; edited by Brian E. Clark.

KITPLANES Reader's Choice Awards 2004
The pools have closed and the results are in! Compiled by Julia Downie.

Light Stuff
Seagull Aerosports takes a new angle on weight-shift construction with a fully enclosed cockpit; by Dan Johnson.

Kit Bits
Letters

List of Advertisers

Builders' Marketplace

The Classified Builder

Calendar

Kit Stuff
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.

KITPLANES sits down with Advanced Flight Systems' founder Rob Hickman to examine his new synthetic-vision EFIS.

JPI's Lance Turk explains the features of the new JPI EDM-740.

Ever wonder what it takes to be the largest kit manufacturer in the world? KITPLANES editor Marc Cook takes a tour of Van's Aircraft in Aurora, Oregon.

KITPLANES editor Marc Cook visits Matco Manufacturing near Salt Lake City to see how the company's brakes, wheels and master cylinders are built.

Get an inside look at how Dynon builds and tests its electronic flight instruments.

Kitplanes Magazine contributor Ed Kolano takes a first look at the Sherpa utility aircraft.