![[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")
Sennheiser Withdraws from the Cockpit
Audio specialist Sennheiser is withdrawing from the pilots' headset business in March 2016. The company says it will fulfill all its obligations for servicing...
1000 Van's RV-9s flying
For days, the employees at Van's Aircraft had been watching the "hobbs meter" on their own website, waiting for news of the one thousandth...
Joe Friend's Searey LSX
My new Searey LSX was completed in August 2015. It is painted to honor the Greatest Generation and styled like the PBY Catalina in...
Belite Special Offer: 25% Off on Digital Altimeter/VSI
The Belite Digital LCD Altimeter / VSI is designed to provide many critical pieces of flight information to the pilot in a single, small...
Garmin Team X Introduces GAD 27 Adapter
New GAD 27 pairs with G3X Touch to streamline installations and add more capability
Garmin announced the GAD 27, a small, lightweight and solid state...
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...
Doing it Right, Feeling Light
Building a homebuilt airplane takes a lot of time, compared to just about anything else that people might choose to put together. Fabricating parts,...
Saupe Kitfox
My wife Shelli and I started our Kitfox III kit October 19th of 2014. Thanks to the generous help of our local EAA Chapter...
Geoff van Asch's Murphy Rebel
Murphy Rebel ZK-VAN (kit #798) flew on Saturday, October 24, 2015. After 9 years and many, many hours she flew at Omaka, New Zealand. Powered by...
EAA Board of Directors names Chairman Jack Pelton as CEO of...
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Board of Directors has named EAA Chairman Jack Pelton as Chief Executive Officer, adding the CEO title and responsibilities...
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Build Your Skills: Fabric
The fabric has been applied to the airplane structure, its been tightened properly, and now its time to apply the first chemical coat to seal it. Ron Alexander takes you through the process and also introduces the various ways of attaching the fabric.
