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Xenos Motorglider Quick Build Kits Available
Sonex Aircraft is now offering Quick Build kits for the Xenos Motorglider. The Quick Build upgrade price for the complete Xenos airframe kit is...
KITPLANES® Contributor Dave Prizio and EAA Announce New Aircraft Engine Installation...
"Powering Your Plane" by Dave Prizio is a new book that will help readers correctly install a Lycoming-type engine. It covers each step of...
Lycoming iE2 Engine Powers Lancair Piston Evolution
Lycoming Engines, an operating division of Avco Corporation, announced the first customer delivery of its Integrated Electronic Engine (iE2) on a Lancair Evolution. The...
STOL CH 750 Offered as Ready-to-Fly LSA
In a joint statement, Zenair Ltd. of Midland, Ontario (Canada), and M-Squared Aircraft of Mobile, Alabama, announced that production of the ready-to-fly STOL CH...
SubSonex Personal Jet Now More Affordable
Sonex Aircraft, LLC has a new sales strategy for the SubSonex Personal Jet, with a drastically reduced airframe price to put this unparalleled aircraft...
PS Engineering Announces Lower Cost For Experimental Market PDA360EX Audio Panel
PS Engineering has set a new price for the PDA360EX audio panel of $1,595.00, with a minimum advertised price of $1,345.00. "This is not...
Dynon EFIS D-10A Now Approved for Installation in Certain Type-Certificated Aircraft
In an announcement at Sun 'n Fun, EAA, FAA and Dynon officials said they have established a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) process for installation...
Aeromarine-LSA introduces Pegasus DP-1 O-100 Engine
Pete Plumb of Pegasus Power will exhibit his new "half O-200" engine kit, the Pegasus DP-1 O-100, in the Aeromarine-LSA booth at Paradise City...
NavWorx Teams with Garmin for Affordable ADS-B Solutions
NavWorx, Inc. has entered a licensing agreement with Garmin enabling connectivity to the company's GNS and GTN line of navigators. Under the agreement, NavWorx'...
Belite Announces LCD Instruments and Capacitance Probe for Experimentals, LSA, and...
Belite's new RADIANT instrument line combines many functions into simple, small, lightweight units. The new instruments utilize sunlight-readable, high-contrast, color LCD screens that are...
In Case You Missed It
What’s New
Rockwell BenchJaws introduced, Kitfox Aircraft offers engine options, and Garmin debuts new VHF, nav/com radios.
![Aircraft designs now can be built in a fraction of the time necessary in the early days of homebuilding. [Credit: Adobe Stock]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AdobeStock_1336488.jpg?w=324&h=160&crop=1 "Kit Building Then and Now")
Aero ‘lectrics
Heat and avionics don't get along all that well. Rather than installing a fan that runs all the time, Jim Weir suggests building and using a fan that runs only when you need it.
