Lycoming and Van's Show Special on Electronic Ignition and Thunderbolt Options
Lycoming Engines and Van's Aircraft are partnering again on a show special for Van's customers. New this year, customers have the option to add...
West Coast Zenith Fly-In and Open House
Zenith Aircraft Company's West Coast representative, Quality Sport Planes, is hosting an Open House and Zenith Fly-In on Saturday, May 21st, at their facility at Cloverdale Municipal...
Sonex Introduces Rotax Engine Mount Attach Bars
Sonex Aircraft introduced a new product: Rotax Engine Mount Attach Bars. Developed for Sonex/Rotax 912-series engine mounts, AeroConversions Rotax Attach Bars can also be used for custom Rotax 912 engine mounts on any experimental aircraft.
Zenith Goes to Texas
Zenith Aircraft Company is returning to southwestern Texas to host its popular hands-on kit aircraft building workshop.
Glasair Aviation Takes “COVID Pause”
Announcing a “proactive business strategy,” Glasair Aviation, maker of the Sportsman Experimental, says it is furloughing its production and builder-assist staff while retaining a...
VAL Avionics Cyber Monday Sale
VAL Avionics is offering its INS 429 Integrated Navigation System and mounted NAV 2kR Navigation and COM 2kR Communications Transceiver at a 20% discount staring...
ULPower Tempts Builders With “Shirts for a Snap” Micro Event
Mid-day Saturday found a small frenzy around the ULPower Engines booth. For several hours, their branded T shirts were being handed out for the...
Two Week Wonder
New program offers finished kit aircraft in just two weeks Based on similar well-established kitplane builder-assistance programs (i.e. Sportsman 2+2), Plane-Crafters now offers the ultimate...
AeroMomentum Aircraft Engines Sun N’ Fun Show Special
AeroMomentum announces a $500 discount through April 4-9 on orders for their brand new aircraft engines for small aircraft. AeroMomentum Aircraft Engines are based on the Suzuki G series engines. All the parts are bought brand new from Suzuki OEM suppliers and assemble into the complete engine in Stuart, Florida.
Garmin® revolutionizes database management with wireless Database Concierge
Garmin announced an expanded Connext portfolio of connectivity solutions with the Flight Stream 510 MultiMediaCard (MMC), enabling wireless aviation database transfer capabilities between the Garmin Pilot™...
In Case You Missed it
Light Stuff
Columnist Roy Beisswenger takes a look at what’s currently available in the foot-launched and wheeled variety of canopy or soft-wing aircraft.
Time Machine
This month’s cover story, another in our Buying Used installments—this time covering the Pulsar...
Sounding Off
Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation...
Build it Better
Paul Dye has used his engineering discipline to jot down his thoughts on the many lessons learned as we gain experience as pilots and builders. His goal, and ours, is to leverage the tribal knowledge of longtime builders such as Dye to get you thinking about Experimental aircraft on a higher level. Not simply nuts and bolts, but larger concepts centering on safety and self-discipline. We hope you enjoy this series.