George Longino is the first owner of a factory-built Van's RV-12, a significant milestone for both him and the aircraft company. Van's Aircraft, a long-established kit aircraft manufacturer, has made ...

Van’s Aircraft, well known for a long-line of two and four-place kits now numbering more than 10,000, will soon begin building complete aircraft on a new assembly line the company is creating in ...

Makenzie Bass, 17, a McKinney Boyd High School student, works on the center section bulkhead of a Van's RV-12 aircraft. Staff photo by ANDY JACOBSOHN - DMN Aviation mentor Jeff Hanson (right), an ...

Van's Aircraft, founded by Richard VanGrunsven in 1973, has significantly influenced the experimental aviation sector with its RV product series. These aircraft, known for their performance and ...

WACO, Texas (FOX 44) — China Spring High School’s Engineering‑Tango Flight Career & Technical Education (CTE) program has made history as the first school in Central Texas to build a fully operational ...

Any pilot familiar with Van's Aircraft probably could have guessed that when the company decided to build a light sport aircraft, it would deliver a lot of smiles for not much money. The kitplane ...

It's been 40 years since pilot and engineer Richard VanGrunsven started selling plans for his first homebuilt airplane design, the Van's RV-3. In the decades since more than 7,630 of his designs have ...