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Learn about the origins, development and features of homebuilt aircraft, also known as amateur-built or kit planes. Find out how they are constructed, licensed and flown in different countries and regions.
Viking Dragonfly is an American amateur-built aircraft with a tandem wing layout and a single engine. It was designed by Bob Walters and based on the Rutan Quickie, and has several variants with different landing gear options.
The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of kit-built aircraft created by Jim Bede in the 1960s and 1970s. It has a streamlined fuselage, a pusher propeller or jet engine, and a V-tail. The BD-5J variant is the world's smallest jet aircraft.
The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher-propeller homebuilt aircraft originally sold as a kit by Cirrus Design (now Cirrus Aircraft), and was the company's first model, introduced in 1987. [2] As a kit aircraft, the VK-30 is a relatively obscure design with few completed aircraft flying.
The Bede BD-4 is a light aircraft designed by Jim Bede for homebuilding and available since 1968. It is one of the world's most popular homebuilts with thousands of plans sold and hundreds of examples completed.
The Van's RV-4 is a two-seat light homebuilt aircraft kit designed by Richard VanGrunsven. It is a development of the RV-3 and has a new wing, a range of engines and is suitable for sport aerobatics and cross country flying.
Jeffair Barracuda is a high-performance sporting monoplane designed and built by Geoffrey Siers in the 1970s. It is a wooden aircraft with retractable gear, side-by-side seating, and a Lycoming O-540 engine.
The CX4 is a low wing, single-seat, conventional landing gear equipped aircraft, designed to be simple to build and safe to fly. The name of the plane, CX4, is taken from an old radio show featuring Hop Harrigan, whose plane was called CX4. The aircraft is all metal, 6061-T6 aluminium, except the cowling.