![[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")
Quad City Adds Two New Kits to Lineup
Quad City Ultralight Aircraft Corporation has announced its Challenger Light Sport XS 50 and XL 65. The XS 50 is optimized as an economical,...
2012 Safari 400 Offers New Features, AirVenture Discount
The 2012 Safari 400 kit helicopter appeared at AirVenture this year with loads of new standard features. Among them are a more robust rotor...
E-Mag Delivering a Six Cylinder Unit for Experimentals
Face it. The big bore, high compression engines of today are handicapped by the simple fact that they cannot adjust their ignition timing for...
Aspen Avionics Introduces Connected Panel
Did you ever wish your iPad could interface with your radio stack, or, better yet, the Primary Flight Display (PFD) in your aircraft instrument...
Garmin GTX 23 Remote Transponder for ADS-B Compliance
Garmin announced the GTX 23 ES remote transponder, a new remote-mounted Mode-S extended squitter transponder for Experimental and Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). The GTX...
Advanced Flight Systems AF-5500 EFIS
Advanced Flight Systems introduced a new EFIS suitable for smaller panels, the AF-5500. Using the same box as the AF-5600 but with a smaller...
Belite Fuel Line Water Detector Debuts
A new, patent-pending technology developed by Belite Enterprises capable of detecting water in the fuel tank or fuel line was introduced Tuesday at AirVenture....
Tom Poberezny Retires from EAA Chairman Position
Tom Poberezny and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) today jointly announced that Poberezny is retiring as chairman of the association and AirVenture Oshkosh after...
iFlightPlanner for iPad to be Released This Fall
Sennheiser, manufacturer of aviation headsets, is partnering with iFlightPlanner.com in developing a flight planning application designed for use on the iPad and iPad2. The...
WAC Spirit Debuts at AirVenture
The Spirit Light Sport Aircraft made its first appearance at the show this year. Available as a kit or ready to fly as an...
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La Zoom!
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A KITPLANES Roundtable
Technologies develop, sometimes slowly over time, with the kind of sloth that...
