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...display. Building on the popularity of the 5.7-inch Enigma EFIS, the Odyssey maintains the same flexible architecture, but adds screen real estate and a higher performance processor thats able to...
Light Stuff
Light StuffChoices, choices.One mans SLSA decision. John Horn learned to fly and got his private license with the U.S. Army ROTC at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. That caused...
A Sign of the Zodiac (Part 4)
...College showed up, and life around the hangar became very interesting in the fall of 2006. I wouldn’t have missed a single minute of it. As a plane-building novice, I...
Builder Liability and You
You labored long and hard building your perfect plane. You flew it, enjoyed it, and along the way demonstrated the safety of your beloved aircraft. Now, though, its time to...
Wag-Aero Super Sport
...4000 kits and sets of plans to date. Felton always loved the Cub concept of great short-field performance with peerless downward visibility. After building and operating an Evans VP-2, he...
Lancair Evolution
Airplane development is never a straight, narrow path. From the initial design concept—hopefully imbued with savvy market research and a firm understanding of the category—through early development, prototyping, testing, building...
Lancair Evolution
Airplane development is never a straight, narrow path. From the initial design concept-hopefully imbued with savvy market research and a firm understanding of the category-through early development, prototyping, testing, building...
Completions
...imagined it could take so long to complete, but I suppose getting married, having a child, doing an addition to a house, moving and building a 2500-square-foot hangar were factors-in...
Letters
...included into a revised 95.55 paragraph 1.8 with kitbuilt in paragraph 1.9, CAO 101.55. Amateur building of aircraft in Australia is administratively covered by CAO 100.18 Airworthiness Administration and Procedures-Amateur...
A Futuristic Anachronism
...tail to the building and started the engine. With a friend to take a reading of the scales, he ran the engine up to several speeds to find where the...
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Navigating the New FAA Airworthiness Certificate Application Program
You’ll need access to a computer and scanner to complete this online airworthiness process.
Light Stuff
Dave Martin samples one of the three PiperSport LSA models introduced at the Sebring Expo, and finds it to his liking.
Gross Weights and “Destroyed” Airplanes
Where you you find the gross weight of an aircraft? And can you re-register an airplane that the FAA has deemed "destroyed?"
Dan’s World
Columnist Dan Checkoway appreciates the flexibility of owning a homebuilt rather than a certified aircraft. On a recent condition inspection of his RV-7, he detected small cracks in the front spar of the horizontal stabilizer. A week later he was working on replacing it, without any intervention from the FAA.