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Kitplanes Magazine: Your Homebuilt Aircraft Authority. We cover topics relevant to anyone who has ever dreamed of building or owning a homebuilt experimental aircraft.
Lang Arion Lightning XS
Although I had been active with RC model airplanes all my life, a retirement goal was to complete a full-scale airplane that my wife...
Zenith Workshop Updates
Sebastien Heintz and Herman Eshuis report from Zenith's kit aircraft building workshop class at the Wheels & Wings (builder assistance) facility in Lake City,...
Archive: April 1985
Built by John Tumilowicz, the Sirocco on our April 1985 cover was the fifth design by Marcel Jurca. Candidly, author Howard Levy related that,...
January 2023
On the cover: Pete Dougherty enjoys a flight in CubCrafters’ new Lycoming-powered 186-hp EX-2 363i. Photographed near Yakima, Washington, by Jon Bliss.
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Zenith’s Hands-On Aircraft Building Workshops Return to Florida in December
Zenith Aircraft Company is returning to Florida in December to host its popular hands-on kit aircraft building workshop class. The workshop will be held...
Archive: November 1989
The airplane on our November 1989 cover was not some kind of Cessna 336 that got left in the dryer too long. Indeed, it...
December 2022
On the cover: A small sampling of the 658 aircraft (594 fixed-wing and 64 rotorcraft) that appear in this year’s directory. Which one will...
Fernandez Zenith Cruzer
This is actually my third attempt at an experimental. Three others started, but life kept getting in the way. After retiring from a 25-year...
Archive: August 2008
The mighty Murphy Moose, sporting a Pratt & Whitney PT6A on the nose, threatened to snort right through our August 2008 cover. The airplane,...
In Case You Missed It
Are All Battery Chargers Alike?
Bob Fritz tests battery chargers and desulfation systems, and finds its easier to keep a battery in good shape than to raise it from the dead—and that a good charger is a better bet than a new battery.
What’s New
Beyerdnamic offers a new headset, two new Cub kits are approved by FAA, and the portable AvMap is updated.
