![[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")
![[Credit: Wikimedia Commons]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/4_rutan_a_longez.jpg_preview.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "Rutan Symposium Turns to the Coming Canard Maintenance Crisis")
![[Credit: Flight Desgn GmbH]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1_mosaic_flightdesign.jpg_preview.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "FAA Accepts ASTM Standards, Clearing the Last Hurdle for MOSAIC")
![[Credit: magniX]](https://www.kitplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Magnix.jpg?w=265&h=198&crop=1 "magniX Opens Pre-Orders for an Electric Engine Aimed at Homebuilders")
Goodyear Zeppelin Buzzes Camp Scholler
There we were, recently collapsed into a camp chair, not to mention a strawberry-walnut-blue cheese-and-tomato salad (Californians don't you know), when Goodyear's newest, the...
Bede BD-6 Re-introduced
Jim Bede may have recently passed away, but Jim Bede Jr. continues the family company. In fact, Bedecorp is reintroducing the BD-6 with several...
Astronaut’s Long-EZ Displayed Near Homebuilder HQ
When Jim Voss misses an AirVenture, he has a good reason. Even while serving on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001, he gave...
Pitts 70th at Air Venture
Long before there were kits, composites or even much in the way of plans there was Curtis Pitts. Marshalling the best of Greatest Generation...
Garmin Provides Hands-on Display of Avionics
The new Garmin tent near Boeing Plaza provides pilots with plenty of opportunity to play with their powered-up avionics. Expanded from previous years, the...
EAA's Give Flight Initiative
The EAA's Give Flight goal for this week is to build five wing sets (one Sonex Waiex, one Van's RV-12, one Zenith CH 650,...
Pigeon-Toeing a Hummelbird
Although running past to another event, we couldn't resist a flirting look at Pete Zutrauen's impossibly small, low and high-visibility Hummelbird. The VW-powered, all-metal...
Teenflight Auction
Project Teenflight is auctioning this beautiful, approximately 50-hour old E-LSA RV-12 to raise funds for the next group of teenage builders. The plane was...
Zenith Aircraft Sponsors Engine Day at Oshkosh 2015
One of the best things about the Chris Heintz Zenith designs is that the airframes accept a wide range of powerplants. On Friday, July...
Bright Idea
Our old eyes lit up when we saw Scangrip's (scangripusa.com) range of bright, daylight color-matched work lights in the AirVenture vendor's hangar A.
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The first diesel-powered LSA debuts from IndUS Aviation, Stafford Manufacturing offers a variety of mounting collars, and AirGator improves its handheld electronic flight book (EFB).
Turbine Moose: The Ultimate Amphib
Its said that sailors make good floatplane pilots because they understand the nature of wind on the water. Sailboat racer and pilot Rick Orchard took that sentiment to heart in a big way when he decided to pump up an already large homebuilt (the Murphy Moose) by adding Aerocet amphibious floats and a 550-horsepower Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20 turbine engine.