Oldest homebuilt still owned and flown by the builder

[LCORBIN]

I made the first flight in my modified Flybaby on July 25, 1970 after 2 1/2 years of building and am still actively flying it. I'm just curious how many others "did it right the first time".

[Jeff Point]

Ron Scott is still flying his original design "Ol' Ironsides" which first flew in 1969. A pioneering design, the first homebuilt to use stressed fiberglass skin on the entire airplane.

[Clarke Tate]

That 'Ol Ironsides was interesting. I had to go look at the articles. It is always nice to have articles like this in Sport Aviation.
http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_articles/1971_11_02.pdf
http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_articles/1992_05_01.pdf

[LCORBIN]

Glad to hear it's still flying. Hope to find some more!

[Michael Huffman]

Reported elsewhere in the Mar 08 edition of the EAA e-Hotline is the death of Leonard Eaves of Oklahoma City at age 92(!) in the crash of his one-of-a-kind "Skeeter" homebuilt. As reported, Leonard made Skeeter's first flight in 1966 and flew it from then on until his death.