The Kleb's Homebuilt Aircraft Project

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Bottom Sparcap Layup for the Canard.

Homebuilding 101

Thanks, in part, to the hard working folks at the Experimental Aircraft Association, Americans are, amazingly enough, still free to design, build, and fly their own aircraft. Of course there is still a host of bureacratic procedures to go through, but it is possible. Their are several levels of homebuilding. Roughly, one can: 1) design and build, 2) buy plans and build, or 3) buy a kit and build. We have chosen Option 2 since it offers a nice compromize between time invested and cash flow.

Online Builder's Photo Log

We're building a Cozy IV, modified with some Aerocanard components. So far we've been calling it anything from a Kleb Cozy IV, to the rather ugly sounding: Cozinard, to the more recent: Aerocozy. The following outline roughly chronicals our building process:

(Chapters 1, 2, 3)
(Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18)
(Chapters 10, 11, 12)
  • Center Wing Spar, Main Wing, and Strakes
(Chapters 14, 19-21)
  • Systems
(Chapters 16-17, 22-23)
(Chapters 24, 25, 26)

Follow this link for photos we have taken of other people's projects and miscellaneous flying-related pictures.

Note: for a much more thorough version of the same sort of thing, see the most excellent Zeitlin Cozy Pages, Hicks' Cozy, or Deford's Cozy.

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