The South African kit plane industry, while not as large as its American or European counterparts, has carved out a niche for itself in the global aviation market. The country has a strong general ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- S-PLANE Automation has announced that its X-KIT has been selected by Airbus UpNext for its Extra Performance Wing demonstrator project. The ...

PASCO — Scott and Dan Hanchette were called the Wrong Brothers when they decided a decade ago to build an airplane. But, just as the Wright brothers silenced their critics, the Hanchettes’ Viperjet ...

Starting with a kit from Velocity Aircraft, however, can help make the monumental task slightly more manageable. Their business model revolves around selling comprehensive “experimental aircraft” kits ...

LITTLE ROCK — Private planes assembled from kits have been involved in more crashes and deaths than other small aircraft because pilots are often ill-prepared to fly them, a U.S. safety study found.

A septet of pilots fly their planes in formation over Santa Cruz on Saturday. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - The McAllister Museum of Aviation continues its August showcase series today with a pair of very different kit planes. Local dentist Tom Holbrook's Lancair IV-P is a four-seat plane ...

We’ve certainly been hearing a lot lately about the Terrafugia Transition, the “roadable aircraft” designed to be driven on the road or flown in the air. While it’s been designed from scratch as a ...