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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.

New Products From Beringer

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Beringer announced two new products for experimental aircraft - a double-shock suspension system which is supposed to reduce loads on the aircraft's landing gear...
Kitplanes October 2020

October 2020

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On the cover: Chris Cram caught Glasair Aviation’s Randy Lervold at the helm of the company’s latest Sportsman iteration near Mount Baker in Washington. Table...

New LED-based instruments from Radiant Technology

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Radiant Instruments introduced its new line of inexpensive, daylight-readable LED-based instruments. Designed to run off of standard 12 volts, this new line of instruments...

Archive: March 2009

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Just three months into our yearlong 25th Anniversary year, we had a thoroughly reworked and completely exciting ViperJet on the cover. Lucky Doug Rozendaal,...

McGloon Sonex

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First flight of Sonex N188DM (s.n. 0739) was on May 25, 2020. With about half a tank of gas the airplane accelerated quickly using...

September 2020

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On the cover: Steve Henry’s heavily modified Just Highlander, Yee Haw 7, is a top performer in the STOL Drag racing world. Photographed by...

Arnold Cub Crafters EX-2

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Like most of us, I have always wanted to build a plane. After retirement and 3 years later in October 2019 my plane took...

Shock Wheel by Beringer

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Designed for spring gears, the Shock Wheel™ system absorbs energy at landing and taxiing.  It mounts very easily between the gear leg and the...

Scheme Designers

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Since 1997, Scheme Designers has pioneered custom aircraft paint schemes. Around the globe, there are over 14,000 unique aircraft wearing a Scheme Designers paint...

The Panther

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Excellent Performance, Easy on the Eyes and your Budget Single seat, Sport or LSA, tri-gear/taildragger, aerobatic, aluminum construction, factory welded steel forward fuselage, CNC machined...

In Case You Missed It

Aircraft Wiring

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Electrical system contactors for Experimental aircraft. By Marc Ausman.

Affordable! Fast! Too Hot!

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Marketing departments willfully ignore the difference between objective and subjective statements, especially the marketing...
Starduster biplane over grass strip

Old School Solution

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It doesn’t seem that long ago, but maybe it was, that the essence of a sport airplane was a biplane.

The Airfoil Adventures of Harry Riblett

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Finishing the work NACA started.