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The Anderson EA-1 Kingfisher is a US two-seat amphibious aircraft designed and marketed for homebuilding. [1] It was the work of Earl William Anderson, a Pan Am airline captain, who flew the prototype on 24 April 1969. By 1978, 200 sets of kits for the plane had been sold, and 100 Kingfishers were reported to be under construction.
The Rans S-21 Outbound is an American STOL homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Randy Schlitter and is produced by Rans Designs of Hays, Kansas. It was introduced at AirVenture in 2016. The aircraft is supplied as a quick-build kit for amateur construction or ready-to-fly. [1] [2]
The new aircraft, at first called the Chubasco, made its first flight on 22 December 1958. [ 2 ] The VJ-22 is a high-winged monoplane , using the wings from an Aeronca Champion or Chief , with a new flying boat hull of mahogany plywood , waterproofed with fiberglass cloth. [ 3 ]
The SlipStream Genesis is a family of American, strut-braced, high wing, pusher configuration, tricycle gear aircraft, produced in kit form, for amateur construction. Designed by Chuck Hamilton, the series were originally produced by Innovation Engineering of Davenport, Iowa and more recently by SlipStream International of Wautoma, Wisconsin .
Data from Seawind website, which notes that performance data is from the Seawind 3000 with a Lycoming engine General characteristics Crew: 1 pilot Capacity: 3 adult passengers or 1 adult passenger and 3 children Length: 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m) Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m) Wing area: 163 sq ft (15.14 m 2) Airfoil: NLF(1)-0215(F) Empty weight: 2,300 lb (1,043 kg) useful ...
Hamilton formed Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft that year to produce and market the kit, which was the first pre-molded composite aircraft available to builders. It was introduced to the public at the 1980 EAA Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin , winning Hamilton the 1985 EAA August Raspet Award for "significant advancements in the field of light ...
Cirrus Design VK-30 on ramp at the Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport in Baraboo, Wisconsin, c. 1988. The VK-30 design was conceived in the early 1980s as a kit plane project by three Wisconsin college students: Alan Klapmeier and Jeff Viken from Ripon College, and Alan's brother, Dale Klapmeier, who was attending the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
Many of these were prototypes, but designs such as Bernard Pietenpol's first 1923 design were some of the first homebuilt aircraft. In 1928, Henri Mignet published plans for his HM-8 Pou-du-Ciel, as did Pietenpol for his Air Camper. Pietenpol later constructed a factory, and in 1933 began creating and selling partially constructed aircraft kits ...