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Building light, low-cost ultralight aircraft that are easy to fly and assemble from a kit. Includes ultralight history, aircraft information and ultralight photos.
Constructing Your Own Ultralight Aircraft. You don’t need to be an engineer to make an ultralight model. The process is as simple as constructing a toy from Lego building blocks. With the right tools and information you can go as far as building it all by yourself.
To review, this is the plans-only project I demonstrated on YouTube for building an ultralight from raw materials. (You’ll find this free 50-part series here .) My objective was to build an “FAA-legal” ultralight using approved aircraft materials and techniques.
A genuine, qualifying Part 103 ultralight vehicle, Legal Eagle ultralight weighs only 244 pounds. The three axis aircraft is designed around the four stroke half VW engine producing 30 horsepower, more than enough power for most applications.
Explore Ultralight Airplane Worksop ultralight builds. Find How-To videos, books and links that can aid in the construction ultralight aircraft and light aircraft.
Getting your kit components under $25,000 for a one- or two-place airplane is a challenge enough, but getting something with four seats that starts in the budget basement (so to speak) is fairly impressive.
The Affordaplane, or A-Plane as it is commonly called, is a single seat, all-aluminum design powered with a 35 to 40 horsepower motor. It can be built as an FAR 103 legal ultralight, or a light sport aircraft (LSA). It’s your choice.
The Sling 2 Kit is The Airplane Factory’s solution for the Do-It-Yourself-er. Few things are more intimate and adventurous than building and flying your very own airplane and The Airplane Factory believes that it is imperative for any Sport Aircraft manufacturer to offer a kit version.
For all of you who have mastered assembling IKEA furniture, and are dreaming to fly high in the sky, we’re giving you 5 easiest kit airplanes to build from scratch! Isn’t this a great time to...
While you may hear pilots and builders use the term ultralight to describe a small, light aircraft in general terms, the FAA has very specific rules as to what constitutes an ultralight. Full details are spelled out in Part 103 of the FARs, but here are the highlights.