Completions

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Jim and Amelia Isaacs’ Zenith CH701

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Jim and Amelia Isaacs received Airworthiness Certification for N701JA on 12 July 2019. The couple began their Zenith CH701 kit build in May of...

Russ and Carole Roberts’s Zenith STOL 750

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On November 7, 2011, we obtained an airworthiness certificate for our Zenith STOL 750 kit aircraft. As first-time builders, we spent 2746 hours over...
Gerry Peterson’s S-19 Venterra

Gerry Peterson’s S-19 Venterra

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My S-19 Venterra received its Special Airworthiness Certificate on April 7, 2019 after a thorough inspection of the aircraft and documentation by DAR Vic...

Jim Nelson Sportsman

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On June 12, 2019 Sportsman kit #7146 became N816J—airworthy according to my DAR! On September 19, 2019 N816J “slipped the surly bonds of earth and...

Holliston LongEZ

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NX666DV is the second Long EZ I've built from plans. The first one, SPEEDRACER flew me around for 1,500 hours over 10 years and...

Eric Joern’s Kitfox Super Sport

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After attending AirVenture three times, watching my brother build his Kitfox and getting to know the folks at the Kitfox factory, I decided Kitfox...

Sparrow Fokker D VII

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Dear Kitplanes, here’s a great sunset to complement my Aerodrome Airplanes 80% scale Fokker D VII. It was completed in January 2016, and inspected...

Dirk Verdonck’s Sonex Onex

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I completed my Sonex Onex in March 2019. Building started in 2013 and during a period of 5 years, I spent 1800 hours on...

Machin Zenith 601XLB

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After about 10 years of stop-start building (funny how life gets in the way of the important stuff) I finally finished up I got...

Walker Zodiac CH640 – “Bluebird”

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I’ve always enjoyed woodworking and working with my hands. After building a regulator clock from a kit, then building a dulcimer from an instrument...

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A Tale of Two Antennas

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With the recent rush to ADS-B, there has been a significant interest in GPS...

The Motivated Builder

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Building an airplane ranks right up there as one of the most existential things you can do in your lifetime.

Hummel H5

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Good things come in small packages.

The Airplane Van Didnt Want to Build

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How the RV-6 became the most successful kit aircraft yet.