old Sport aviation

Talk about airplanes! At last count, there are 39 (and growing) FAA certificated S-LSA (special light sport aircraft). These are factory-built ready to fly airplanes. If you can't afford a factory-built LSA, consider buying an E-LSA kit (experimental LSA - up to 99% complete).

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old Sport aviation

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A local dropped off his old Sport Aviation collection. Complete back into the 50's. Really neat airplanes and quite a few are LSA legal.

What got my attention is pages and pages of homebuilts of all different types. Years of them. Deltas, V tails, STOL, hang gliders, canards, flying wings, biplanes, P-51 replicas etc.

Pages of VW and other engine conversions. Even a Vega 4 cylinder. Rotarys, Turbos, 2 strokes. And I'm only up to 1973

Where are they now? Who's got a one off old homebuilt at their airport?

Pitts, Smith mini, Sidewinder, Stits, Spezio, etc.

I have a Flybaby built in 1965 that flew to Rockford and Oshkosh. Still in flyable condition and over 1500 hours on the clock. Builder was a B-26 pilot in WWII. The vertical speed indicator is from his bomber. Has a complete log of every flight and pilot since day one.
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