Category: Aircraft

If your own a small general aviation aircraft you know that ownership, maintenance and repairs can be expensive. Fortunately, many smart aviators […]

Preventive maintenance on aircraft involves simply replacing some components with exact replacement parts and doing some lubrication. Here are a few of […]

Once you’ve narrowed the field to a handful of planes, you’ll want to make an inspection, then take a test flight to […]

How can you choose the right plans or kit for your custom-built or experimental aircraft? Many new flyers spend years researching the […]

If your car has a problem you can, if you wish, fix it yourself. That’s not the case with most general aviation […]

You can run out and buy or lease the first airplane that has the right paint job, but you might soon become […]

Before you decide whether you want to buy a sport aircraft, let’s take a closer look at how and why to do […]

The controversy of sole ownership versus partnership began more than 100 years ago when Wilbur and Orville Wright flipped a coin to […]

Homebuilt or experimental aircraft have been around for more than a century. The Wright brothers built the first airworthy plane as “experimental” […]

Airplanes built by their owners are called by a variety of names: amateur built, home built, experimental, and others. I and many […]

Engineering has evolved tremendously over the past 100 years, and standards for metal, construction, and machinery have stood the tests of time. […]

There are three types of general aviation aircraft: certified, consensus, and experimental. Those built under the The FAA (and, prior, the Civil […]

You might be surprised to learn that not every pilot owns his or her aircraft. In fact, renting and other non-ownership options […]