![[Credit: Van's Aircraft]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_5238.jpg?w=534&h=462&crop=1 "Part 22 Gets Real: Van’s Delivers the First MOSAIC-Certified Airplane")
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![[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/McFarlane_tailwheel.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel")
Volunteers: Homebuilt Aircraft Registration
If you have ever flown your homebuilt aircraft into AirVenture, your first stop was probably the Homebuilt Aircraft Registration hut, also called the Homebuilders...
Volunteers – The Welcome Wagon
Maybe you've scud-run into Ripon, dodged a couple of planes diving down in front of you between Ripon and Fisk, freaked out over the two...
Van’s Annual Banquet
Each year, the Van's RV faithful gather at the EAA Nature Pavilion on Tuesday evening of AirVenture to swap stories, meet the factory folks...
Belite SkyDock Offers Fun, Affordable Flying
Belite Aircraft's SkyDock has been updated with an attractive molded carbon fiber fuselage. The lightweight aerodynamic design creates a fast, efficient aircraft or one...
Photo Op with the Wright Brothers!
KITPLANES editor-in-chief, Paul Dye, took some time out today to take advantage of a photo opportunity with the Orville and Wilbur Wright, and you...
Jim Smith's Lift Reserve Indicator
Jim Smith's lime green RV-6 sports many performance-enhancing modifications including extended, tapered wing tips, and Ellippse propeller, and extensive modifications to the cooling air...
Free Access to Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS for EAA Members
EAA provides members with free access to Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS Student Design Kit, which includes: EAA Maker Edition software, MySolidWorks online video tutorials, the MySolidWorks Manufacturing Network, and related training and design resources.
Did Someone Say Donuts?
Wednesday is donut day at the AirVenture Homebuilder's Headquarters, and those who build and fly experimental aircraft are never shy when free food is...
Super Seawind – Turbine Power!
How's this for something new? I met Steve Wightman today, owner and builder of the only turbine-powered Seawind. Starting from a skeleton Quick Kit...
New Records?
Although it it's only Tuesday, there are indications that AirVenture 2016 might be a record year for fly-in attendees. With construction at the north...
In Case You Missed It
Editor’s Log
The explosion of ADS-B technology, the new Van’s RV-14 and an editor in a ballistic-parachute simulator—AirVenture was full of exciting developments, as always. Plus: a send-off for Editor-at-Large Marc Cook. By Editor-in-Chief Mary Bernard.
Kitfox Super Sport
Marc Cook reports on the process of developing a new Lycoming O-233 engine package for the Kitfox Series 7 Super Sport and samples the result.
