The most popular homebuilt or kit plane

[Floatsflyer]

None ever taken...just like to keep the historical record straight.

[Floatsflyer]

In the absence of a list with verifiable numbers and no single Manufacturers Association to put them out...

Well, I stand corrected. I just found out there is an industry association- the Aircraft Kit Industry Association(AKIA), not to be confused with IKEA. It was formed in July, 2012 at Oshkosh. To date it has 26 US based members, 18 of which are kit manufacturers. They must perform their activities in a clandestine manner and/or not send out press releases to the general aviation press because I and those who contributed to this thread have never heard of them.

Their website does not contain any stats or direct contact info. The OP can likely contact one of the BOD's directly or thru EAA and ask if they will at some point begin to gather and publish stats like GAMA and LAMA.

http://www.akia.aero/

[raytoews]

Interesting information.
I did a quick search of the Canadian data base.

Amateur built 501
Advanced ultralight (like Light Spot) 500
Basic ultralight which must be registered in CDA 500
I included Owner maintenance(they are
homebuilts for all intents) 500

I suspect the data as they all came out at 500????

Van's showed 490 registered so the 500 of amateur built is suspect.

TC doesn't seem to have the same database info FAA does.


Ray Toews

[rwanttaja]

Interesting information.
I did a quick search of the Canadian data base.

Amateur built 501
Advanced ultralight (like Light Spot) 500
Basic ultralight which must be registered in CDA 500
I included Owner maintenance(they are
homebuilts for all intents) 500

I suspect the data as they all came out at 500????

Says right on the search page: "All searches are limited to 500 records."

http://wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur...ncedsearch.asp

In my 2009 Canadian database I see about 3900 "Amateur Built - CAR Standard 549" aircraft.

Ron Wanttaja

[raytoews]

Says right on the search page: "All searches are limited to 500 records."

http://wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur...ncedsearch.asp

In my 2009 Canadian database I see about 3900 "Amateur Built - CAR Standard 549" aircraft.

Ron Wanttaja

RTFS,,,,,eh,,,,,Ron.

[AndrewPowell]

Glad to read EAA forums members deep knowledge about aircraft. I am looking for more useful threads related aero stuff.

[lnuss]

Just to be clear and so there is no confusion, Ron's humorous remark of "54-40 or fight"

It might seem a little nit-picky, but Ron didn't say that: He actually said, "54:40 or flight!" - note the 'l'...

[AndrewPowell]

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[Bill Greenwood]

I looked up how many 172s built and it says almost 60,000, didnt know it was that many. It also says it will go 187 mph, not any Ive flown, Id have to put that in the category of "Alternate Facts".
Or maybe if being towed by a Mooney.

[choppergirl]

List of top most produced aircraft (click the Most Produced Aircraft drop down arrow to expand the table of aircraft):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ft?wprov=sfla1


Quicksilver looks erroneously missing from the list, probably because so many versions instead of one single model, but 13,000 Weedhoppers.