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![[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")
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Headset BuyBack Program from Aircraft Spruce
An offer from Aircraft Spruce:
At Aircraft Spruce we understand how difficult it can be justifying buying a new headset when the one you already have...
First Look – Van's RV-14 Taildragger
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Six Elected to EAA Board of Directors
Longtime Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University official new addition to board
Six Experimental Aircraft Association members have been voted to represent EAA's 190,000 members as a part...
Mitchell RV-8 N883EM
Here is my RV8: 8 years, 4300 hours with a Lycoming 180 HP, Dynon EFIS/EMS/AP built mainly in Eastern Canada, finished and now based...
Bucholz Kitfox Supersport N825CB
We bought our kit at the 2008 Copperstate Fly-in with the idea that we would complete the Kitfox in 2 years. "Life got in...
2015 Oshkosh AirVenture Awards
HOMEBUILT
Classic Home Built Special Award - Large Plaque
307th Bomb Wing - 93rd Bomb Squadron Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana 1961 B-52H, 61-0029
Kit Outstanding Workmanship...
New CAMit Distributor
Jack Gonzenbach of Heart of America Aviation LLC is the new North American distributor for CAMit aircraft engines out of Australia. CAMit engines are...
6-Cylinder E-Mag
We were in a rush, the E-Mag booth was full of customers and so we didn't get to chat up the details, but the...
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Dennis Hasha, Homebuilder Headquarters Registration Chair told KITPLANES that 1031 homebuilt aircraft had flown in and registered at AirVenture as of noon today. A...
EAA Fires Back at Airline Pilots Union for Attacking General Aviation...
ALPA letter to U.S. Senate ignores facts in favor of political rhetoric
The Experimental Aircraft Association and other general aviation groups today fired back at...
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