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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fatal crashes involving kit planes in Australia have led to an upgrade of safety procedures for "home-built" aircraft. Ron Bertram, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), was ...

The relatively rare and high-performance kit plane in which a Carefree man and his father-in-law died Tuesday has a history of landing gear problems, said an expert who has assembled and flown the ...