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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Van’s Aircraft has started production of its first-ever high-wing design, the RV-15. The company has begun manufacturing wing kits, which are expected to ship to builders this year. On the opening day ...