The days when homebuilt aircraft owners relied solely on basic engine gauges and gut instinct for engine health monitoring are rapidly fading. Today’s experimental aircraft builders and operators have ...

The paint sprayer hummed inside the hanger of Jackson’s chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association on a recent morning. John Eiler, vice president of the chapter, added a coat to the final few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities with the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Sunday that a single-engine plane that crashed Saturday, ...

CHICAGO — As a flight adviser, Ron Liebmann’s official duty is to evaluate the skills of a pilot preparing to fly an airplane for the first time. He starts by talking about experience. Then Liebmann ...

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Today there are over 30,000 homebuilt aircraft on the FAA’s registry. It’s estimated there may be another 30,000 under construction. When it comes to the question of how to build an airplane, there ...

The family of a 4-year-old girl who died when the homebuilt airplane she was riding in crash-landed in a parking lot along the Oregon coast has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the company that ...

This Bede BD-4 at the 1991 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh joined the hundreds built from an $1,800 kit introduced by Jim Bede in 1970. Homebuilt aircraft have been called symbols of two intrinsically ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- The "One Week Wonder" project, which gives people the opportunity to build a plane at EAA, returned this year. Volunteers began working to put together the aircraft kit, starting at ...

Going on a solo boat trip, taking an all-terrain vehicle off-road, or flying an amateur-built or experimental aircraft are all adrenaline-pumping endeavors for people with an adventurous spirit. But ...

Undoubtedly, some of you will think that building your own airplane is the weird part of this story. There are actually a large number of people that want to get into the private pilot game, but can't ...

Authorities with the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Sunday that a single-engine plane that crashed Saturday, killing one person aboard, was an “experimental homebuilt vans RV-8″ ...