Sonex Aircraft LLC has announced that the FAA’s National Kit Evaluation Team (NKET) has approved and published amateur building checklists for the company’s Onex single-place, folding-wing kit aircraft. These approved checklists will allow current and future Onex builders to show compliance with the FAA’s 51% rule. NKET checklist participation also opens the opportunity for Onex [...]

Sonex Aircraft LLC has announced that it will be holding its 50th Sonex Builder Workshop on the weekend of January 28-29, 2012. The Sonex workshop, held at the company’s factory in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, gives current and prospective builders an opportunity to meet the Sonex staff and learn about the design and construction of the Sonex. [...]

The Sonex Aircraft, LLC proof-of-concept electric-powered Waiex flew for the first time on December 3, 2010, at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Piloted by Sonex Founder and E-Flight team leader John Monnett, N270DC made a short hop on Runway 27, intended to be a conservative nonpattern flight to break ground effect and analyze inflight [...]

This just in from AeroConversions: “Sonex Aircraft, LLC is pleased to announce another new enhancement to the popular AeroConversions AeroCarb product line with the introduction of the lighter and more compact AeroInjector! Saving approximately 9 ounces and several cubic inches of engine compartment space vs. the AeroCarb, the new AeroInjector is being introduced first in [...]