A significant portion (25%) of single-engine piston airplanes in the FAA registry are amateur-built, offering a unique ownership experience. While statistically less safe than factory-built planes, ...

Two tragic plane crashes in two weeks have exposed a booming interest in home-built aircraft - a phenomenon the FAA says has tripled in popularity since the 1980s. Four people died when a ...

The article features a 2022 Van's RV-14 as "Today's Top Pick" from AircraftForSale.com. The RV-14 is designed as a larger, more powerful "grand touring" aircraft for longer cross-country trips, ...

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″ ...

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A homebuilt aircraft crashed into the ocean just south of San Francisco on Sunday. Four people were reportedly on board the flight when it went down. The retired dentist who built the plane called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's first home-built aircraft carrier is nearing completion. Satellite photographs indicate most major construction is complete, though much remains to be done and the carrier probably won't be ...

A single-engine homebuilt aircraft veered off a runway and into a ditch after landing at a rural airport in Parker County on Friday afternoon.

A California pilot has died after smashing his 'experimental homebuilt' plane into a dirt slope 50 seconds into flight. Horrific photographs show the wreckage of the single-engine Vans RV8, which ...

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 ...