STOL when you need it, fun all the time.

By Ed Wischmeyer

With 4000 kits sold, a million hours flown, and a loyal customer base, you just knew that the Kitfox would be back somehow find itself back in production. It’s been out after the previous company, SkyStar Aircraft, went bankrupt in 2005, leaving builders in the lurch. Now the Kitfox design gets to leverage its popularity—coming in part from its charming looks and in part from its well-developed airframe and complete kit—against the fulcrum of a new company headed by a management team that is experienced, well-liked in the Kitfox community and determined to avoid the mistakes of past administrations.

By the time you read this, Kitfox Aircraft LLC should be in its new facility in Homedale, Idaho, 20 driving miles from the old SkyStar headquarters in Caldwell. Flying, it’s 12.5 n.m. direct, but farther “as the Kitfox flies,” because it seems necessary to intercept the Snake River and…

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