![[Credit: McFarlane Alaska]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/McFarlane_tailwheel.jpg?w=534&h=462&crop=1 "McFarlane Alaska Absorbs Backcountry Favorite T3 Tailwheel")
![[Credit: FAA]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FAA-Mosaic-1.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "MOSAIC Isn’t a Question of Can You—But Why You’d Build")
![[Credit: EAA]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/vintage-in-review-herb-clark.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Vintage in Review Returns to Oshkosh: Five Days, Five Stories, and a Living OX-5")
![[Credit: Zenith Aircraft Company]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/31142685469.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Zenith Throws Open Its Doors for “Fly-In to Summer”")
![Making rare use of my drafting tools for the internal timing. [All Images Credited to Andrew Robinson]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/P1010535.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Conquering the Magneto, Part 2")
Garmin’s New GPS 175 and GNX 375 navigators with WAAS/LPV approaches...
Entry-level two-inch WAAS GPS navigators also offer wireless connectivity and more.
It's a Plane!
There's a new jet in town - N958PD, the Subsonex kit formerly known as "the project" received its airworthiness certificate today after a thorough...
Mathis Sport Aviators' RANS S-6
N646GT started with six members in an LLC, and currently has four left, 10 years after we bought the kit. One of our team...
And Just Like That… It's Done
It's finished! Well, mostly finished... as finished as an airplane, or a paint job, can ever be. Painter John Stahr put the final touches...
Chipper Single-Seat Aircraft Now Available
Chipper Aerospace LLC. announced that the company's single-seater is available for ordering at an introductory price of $6000 until April 30.
Chipper Aerospace is taking...
A Day of Fussy Fuss
John Stahr announced first thing in the morning that Friday would be "a day of fussy fuss." It was time to address all those...
Light at the End of the Tunnel
John Stahr continued working on N958PD, KITPLANES Editor-in-Chief Paul Dye's recently built SubSonex jet on Thursday. With the large area painting completed and detailed...
Details, details, details…
The fifth day started bright and early with the limbering up of the spray gun and the deployment of white - the final major...
Aircraft Spruce Opens Illinois Location
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. opened a distribution warehouse in West Chicago, IL, located in a 52,000 sq. ft. warehouse situated between Du Page...
Now–In Living Color!
Work continued on the jet's paint job on Tuesday--and a long day it was. The detailed layout was completed the day before, so it...
In Case You Missed It
Build Your Skills: Composites (Part 10)
What do you do when your horizontal stabilizer isn't exactly horizontal? First, you check that the fuselage is level. If this confirms that the stabilizer is indeed slightly off, remove it and apply heat. Sounds simple, but there's a right and a wrong way to go about it, and author Bob Fritz describes the most effective method to straighten things out.
Book Review: Are Your Nuts Tight?
Vic Syracuse has written two definitive guides to Experimental Aircraft Pre-Buys and Condition Inspections.
Archive: November 1997
Ron Wanttaja sampled the still-new Van’s RV-8 for our cover story in the November...
