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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 Alaska Digs for Aircraft Spruce

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Larger facility enables the company to increase local inventory to provide optimum service to customers throughout Alaska.

EAA Homebuilders Week Returns in January

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EAA Homebuilders Week virtual presentations are open, free of charge, to everyone interested in building aircraft.

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Buyer’s Guide 2024

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On the cover: Here are just a few of the many different types of homebuilt aircraft listed in our annual Buyer’s Guide. Which one...

Toth Sonex

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Sonex 1520 Special Airworthiness Certificate 22 August 22. First flight Sunday 28 August 2022.

Archive: January 2007

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Our coverage for the 2006 Reno Air Races appeared in the January issue the next year, depicting what may well have been the apogee...

Irene the Gyro

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“Irene the Gyro” was a design I put together while sitting on fire standby in Greece during an unusually wet season so I had...

Password Reset for KITPLANES Readers

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We're making some changes to our subscription service. To continue accessing KITPLANES content, please reset your password here or from the link you received...

December 2023

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On the cover: Brandon and Heather Petersen’s Super Sport is the first Kitfox to be powered by a 160-hp Rotax 916 iS. Photographed by...

FLYING Media Group Acquires Bonnier’s Marine Titles

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FLYING Media Group begins to expand today in the recreational marine industry with the acquisition of Bonnier’s marine media titles, including Boating, Yachting, Sailing...

In Case You Missed It

Love the One You’re With

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Once you finish building a project, it's tempting to second-guess whether you should have done something different, or perhaps waited for the next gen of a new technology to make an appearance. But flying two differently powered Sportsman aircraft gave Editor in Chief Marc Cook a new appreciation for his own airplane and its more than adequate capabilities.

Perking up the performance of a Glasair Sportsman

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Power Flow exhaust shows a measureable efficiency gain over the standard system.

Prop Gyro

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A rotating propeller acts as a gyroscope.

Induction Wave Propagation

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Yet another way to increase engine volumetric efficiency.