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The Bede BD-4 is an American light aircraft, designed by Jim Bede for homebuilding and available since 1968. It was one of the first homebuilt aircraft to be offered in kit form. [1] It remains one of the world's most popular homebuilts with thousands of plans sold and hundreds of examples completed to date. [citation needed]
Cockpit access is via the lower wing. The company claims an amateur builder can complete the aircraft from the kit in 500 hours. [3] [5] [6] The specified engine for the Classic is the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-stroke engine. [2] [3] [5] [6] The estimated time to build the aircraft from the kit is 400–500 hours, or 250 hours from the quick ...
The resulting design is more complex and more difficult to build than most aircraft marketed for homebuilding. [8] [14] In particular, the aluminum wing ribs are designed to be hydroformed and then tempered. [7] [8] Bartoe therefore marketed wing kits along with Skyote plans through Skyote Aeromarine Ltd. [7] [9]
John Hatz designed the CB-1 in 1968 as a smaller version of a Waco F series biplane. The CB-1 is a tandem dual-control two-seat biplane with fixed tailwheel landing gear and powered by a variety of nose-mounted small engines. Steel tube fuselage and tail with wooden wings. Plans and kits of parts for the CB-1 are available for amateur construction.
The Baby Great Lakes is built using 136 ft (41.5 m) of steel tubing for the fuselage with aircraft fabric covering. [3] The wings use spruce spars. The aircraft can accommodate engines ranging from the Continental A-65 to the Volkswagen air-cooled engine. [4]
The Pitts Model 12 (also known by its nicknames "Bolshoi," "Macho Stinker," and "Pitts Monster"[1]) is a high-performance [2]) aerobatic biplane designed around the Vedeneyev M14P/PF Russian engine. The aircraft can be built from plans or as a kit plane , or bought ready-to-fly from the factory.
The Tiger Cub Developments (TCD) Sherwood Ranger is a single engine, tandem two seat biplane microlight designed and built in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Kits were originally produced by TCD; later, design rights were acquired by The Light Aircraft Company Ltd (TLAC) who resumed kit production in 2009.
The CEI Free Spirit Mk II, also called the Cabrinha Free Spirit Mark II and the Cabrinha Model 423, is a three-seat American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Richard Cabrinha and produced by CEI of Auburn, California, introduced at AirVenture in 1995. The aircraft was intended to be supplied as a kit for amateur construction, but only ...