On the home page of the Van’s Aircraft website, there is a replica of a Hobbs Meter. It doesn’t count hours; however, it counts aircraft completions…the number of RVs that have been finished and flown ...
Van’s Aircraft, well known for a long-line of two and four-place kits now numbering more than 10,000, will soon begin building complete aircraft on a new assembly line the company is creating in ...
For nearly 50 years, Van’s Aircraft Inc. has offered a series of low-wing, all-aluminum kit planes popular with those who like to fly airplanes they assemble with their own hands. The Aurora, ...
An RV-7 aircraft kit recently delivered to Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1071 President David Porter of Martinsburg, West Virginia, officially became the 10,000th Van’s RV aircraft to ...
Richard VanGrunsven, founder of Van's Aircraft Co., will be the featured speaker at the Aviation Museum's annual fundraising Gala on Oct. 10. Courtesy photo/Aviation Museum of New Hampshire ...
MARION — When Denny Hodge’s second child graduated from college, his wife gave him a gift certificate for the Marion Airport. “My wife said, ‘You’re spending too much time at home, you need to find ...
That's how Bill Alder, the president of the Teenflight program in Campbell River, describes the two-seater plane built by local teenagers that is going up for auction. Kids from the ages of 13 to 17 ...
The pilot of a single-engine plane was killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Corona Municipal Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board described the plane that ...
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Legend has it that when the British Spitfire returned from its first test flight, Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers climbed out of the cockpit, hopped off the wing, and told the waiting engineers, "Don't ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Two people were injured Monday night when the homebuilt airplane they were flying lost control and flipped while they were attempting to land at a small central Arkansas airport.