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Annual Directory, Part 1
2006 Kit Aircraft Directory
We list 343 fixed-wing aircraft built from kits and give special designation to Light-Sport legal designs; compiled by Julia Downie

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

Flight Reports
Sword Flight
The Excalibur II may be descended from the Quad City Challenger, but it's become its own deal; by Dave Higdon.

Builder Spotlight
Build Your Skills: Metal, Part 5
When is a dimple not a dimple? When it's a countersink. Dig in to find out more; by Dan Checkoway.

Meet the T-Moose
Adding a fine whine to Murphy's outsized amphibian; by Ed Wischmeyer.

Completions

Shop Talk
Engine Beat
How to buy a used Lycoming O-320/360; by Tim Kern.

Aero 'Lectrics
A new kid on the block--XCOM's 760 transceiver; by Jim Weir.

Designer's Notebook
Wind Tunnel
Are you twisted? Maybe you aren't but your wings probably are; by Barnaby Wainfan.

Exploring
Around the Patch
Getting it right: Ideal flying qualities are hard to develop, easy to misplace; by Marc Cook.

What's New
Zenith debuts quickbuild kits for Zodiac XL, CH801; edited by Brian E. Clark.

Readers' Choice Awards 2006
The polls have closed, and the results are in! Compiled by Julia Downie.

Light Stuff
Smartly styled and Part 103 legal, the Prowler makes fun flying for experienced trike pilots; by Dan Johnson.

Kit Bits
Letters

List of Advertisers

Special Sportplanes Advertising Section

Builders' Marketplace

The Classified Builder

Kit Stuff
Drawing on experience; by cartoonist Robrucha.