Homebuilt aircraft, also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. These aircraft may be constructed from "scratch", from
A Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt in 1984 in England
Canada's first homebuilt aircraft, Stitts SA-3A Playboy CF-RAD, first flown in 1955, seen in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
The Questair Venture set new standards for speed in kit-built aircraft design
The Cirrus VK-30 is a single-engine pusher-propeller homebuilt aircraft originally sold as a kit by Cirrus Design, and was the company's first model, introduced in 1987.
Homebuilt aircraft
…Canard designs such as the VariEze and Long EZ designed by Burt Rutan The pusher propeller Cirrus VK-30 designed by Jeff Viken and the Klapmeier brothers The Europa XS family of British two-place monoplanes designed by Ivan Shaw…
Cirrus VK-30 outside the Florida Air Museum in 2006
Cirrus-Israviation ST50 at the Paris Air Show in 1997
VK-30 on display at the Air Zoo in 2019