For nearly 50 years, Van’s Aircraft Inc. has offered a series of low-wing, all-aluminum kit planes popular with those who like to fly airplanes they assemble with their own hands. The Aurora, ...

Van's Aircraft, a renowned and historically successful kit-aircraft manufacturer, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has a rich half-century history, developing numerous ...

A septet of pilots fly their planes in formation over Santa Cruz on Saturday. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) ...

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for ...

US-based kit manufacturer Van’s Aircraft has resorted to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it attempts to restructure, after encountering financial difficulties. The company, which was founded ...

Growing up in tiny Frederic, Wisconsin, the Karl brothers were always tinkering. Always building something — “or taking things apart, probably more often than building things,” says oldest brother ...

So many now-iconic products have origin stories that start in some dude’s garage—the Mac, the Dyson vacuum cleaner, and even google—so it shouldn’t surprise you that the next great airplane is coming ...