"Simplify and add lightness." Someone really smart and special to motoring enthusiasts once said something to that tune, we're sure you know who. But because airplanes tend to be, well, massive, it's ...

The article features a 2007 Lancair ES-P as "Today's Top Pick" from Aircraft For Sale, highlighting it as an aerodynamically efficient, four-place, amateur-built experimental aircraft. Key features of ...

Today's Top Pick is a 2010 Van's RV-8, highlighting the Van's RV series' impact on the kit-building movement over the past 50 years. Van's Aircraft is lauded for its continuous development of ...

A look at some of the fastest kit-built aircraft ever created, combining impressive performance with the appeal of homebuilt aviation. Parents went to Wingstop, leaving 6 kids — including 2 infants — ...

HPU 210 uses a Kawasaki motorcycle engine combined with an electric motor and batteries VoltAero’s new HPU 210 hybrid-electric powertrain could be used by people building their own light aircraft.

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. If you build it … you can fly it, too. As Peter Elsea and Jason Lorusso have ...

MEXICO, Mo. — In a hangar in central Missouri, pieces are built and put into a kit for customers to purchase. Zenith Aircraft Company has been manufacturing kit airplanes in Mexico, Missouri, since ...