Build Series

Follow Kitplanes contributors through multi-part stories.

As Oshkosh 2025 nears, Tenley rallies support and tackles critical inspection tasks to get RV-6 N2165U flying again.

One step forward, two steps back

Part 14: To fix or not to fix?

Why is this airplane xtreme?

One person can’t imagine eating a whole elephant. It’s simply impossible. But the answer to the idiomatic question remains: one bite at a time!

Out of the holding pattern, onto the panel.

Part 13: Assessing the ailerons, learning the lathe and plotting the wiring.

Things to do while in the holding pattern.

Part 12: Final painted parts, installing wings and things, autopilot servos.

Part 11: Starting to wire my Advanced Flight Systems panel, installing a new fuel selector and more!

Jim Weir - May 15, 2020 1

With a panel full of glass and diodes turned into all the colors of...

Marc Cook - March 27, 2023 5

What’s happening with Van’s high-wing STOL aircraft?

Barnaby Wainfan - April 20, 2018 0

Design process, part 7-runway surface.

Jon Croke - June 20, 2020 0

Fuel filters are found on every aircraft that has an engine. They need to...