![[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")
![Backcountry manners intact: the ULT sits on a grass strip with the turbine spun up, built on the STOL-capable Carbon Cub UL airframe. [Credit: CubCrafters]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-at-11.12.13-AM.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "The New Jetprop Carbon Cub")
![[All images credited to Mike Davenport]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DSC_6716.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Glasair Sportsman 2+2, Part Two")
![Dragging it in low and slow for the STOL competition. [Credit: Andrew Robinson]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SnF_dragging_in.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Sun ’n Fun 2026 Recap: Avionics Upgrades, Thorp Kits, and STOL Action")
![[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")
Modular Flight Bags Now Available
Brightline Bags have a new modular flight-bag system called the FLEX System. With five different sizes of interchangeable modules available, a front and rear...
New Air Conditioner Unit for Homebuilts
Air Management Technology, Inc., has introduced FlyCool: an ultra-lightweight, all-electric, vapor-cycle air conditioning system developed for the LSA and Experimental market.
The R-134a vapor-cycle system...
Streamline Radial Rocket Airframe Kits Available
Altitude Group LLC announced Radial Rocket Streamline Airframe Kits, which offer all of the Radial Rocket-specific airframe parts--molded composite parts, canopy and windshield, landing-gear...
Engine Components International Mourns Passing of CEO Gary H. Garvens
Engine Components International (ECi), along with its parent company, Danbury AeroSpace, announced the passing of owner and CEO Gary H. Garvens on May 31,...
SeaRey 20th Anniversary Celebrations
To celebrate 20 years in sport amphibian aviation, Progressive Aerodyne is offering a promotional package to buyers of 2012 SeaRey kits. This incentive is...
Crossing the Atlantic: Low, Slow and on Electrical Power
Chip Yates, a championship motorcycle racer and winner of the 2011 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on a 258-horsepower electric motorcycle, is planning on making...
New Wingtip LED Light System
Kuntzleman Electronics introduces the LED Combo, a new wingtip strobe anti-collision/navigation light system. This cluster of very bright LEDs uses a common controller that...
NTSB Reviews Homebuilt Safety Record
The National Transportation Safety Board released findings this week indicating that pilot errors during Phase I flight testing and pilot transition into homebuilts are...
Tempest Introduces AT5K Spark Plug Resistance Tester
To test the internal resistance in all aviation spark plugs, Tempest has released its new AT5K resistance tester.
Using the tester is simple: Place the...
Zenith Introduces New STOL CH 750
Zenith Aircraft Company has combined the features and advantages of a "real" airplane with the short-field capabilities of ultralight aircraft in its new kit...
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Repeat Offender
This time I want an airplane strictly built for the joy of flying. I want something simple and relatively cheap for that magical first and last half-hour of daylight, to be low and slow with no place in particular to go and sporting a massive grin.