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, ...

The days when homebuilt aircraft owners relied solely on basic engine gauges and gut instinct for engine health monitoring are rapidly fading. Today’s experimental aircraft builders and operators have ...

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″ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Authorities with the National Transportation ...