A small, home-built kit airplane crashed in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday afternoon, damaging two homes and and ...

"It’s just a horrible feeling,” Ostroth said. Like commercial aircraft, all home-built planes are required by the FAA to be inspected annually for air worthiness. Cozy aircraft have the same ...

More than 33,000 amateur-built aircraft are licensed by the FAA, a figure that has tripled since the 1980s. The administration designates any non-commercial, recreational aircraft as ...

The four-seat Mark IV, at just over 16 feet (5.1 meters) long with a 28-foot (8.5-meter) wingspan, is a popular plane among the growing number of aviation hobbyists who build their own aircraft ...

LOS ANGELES — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft ...