MEXICO, Mo. — Zenith will host its 8th annual “Fly-In to Summer” Open Hangar Day on Saturday, June 21. The event provides an opportunity to tour the aircraft kit manufacturing facility and to meet people who have already completed the building their own kit plane. Many people will take their first flight in a Zenith aircraft […]
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Zenith aircraft training Chinese pilots
Zenith recently shipped its 45th kit for a STOL CH 750 to China. Once they arrive in China, AGRHA Corporation, which operates kit assembly facilities in Nantong, Jiuangsu, Chongqing, Mianyang, Sichuan, Shenyang, Liaoning and Beijing, assembles the Zenith kits on a production line. They are then test flown and tweaked before delivery, company officials note. […]
Zenith to host ‘Engine Day’ at SUN ’n FUN
Zenith Aircraft Co. will host its first “Engine Day” at SUN ’n FUN on Friday, April 4. The event will be staged at the Zenith exhibit booth and is open to everyone. Zenith has invited all major manufacturers of 65 to 150 hp engines to participate by putting their firewall forward packages on display for Zenith […]
Help build the ‘One Week Wonder’ at Oshkosh
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014, tens of thousands of attendees can share in building an airplane through the “One Week Wonder” project. The building project is focused on building a Zenith CH 750 kit aircraft (like the one pictured below) during the seven days of EAA AirVenture 2014, beginning […]
Zenith sets workshops
Zenith has scheduled builder workshops for March 6-7 and April 24-25 at its factory headquarters in Mexico, Mo. The workshops have become popular with sport aviation enthusiasts who have contemplated building their own aircraft, but were not sure if they could handle the required skills, workspace and tools, according to company officials. During each workshop, […]
Zenith CH750 flies with Rotax 912iS
A STOL CH750 has become the first Zenith kit aircraft in North America to fly with the new Rotax 912iS engine. The flight was the result of a collaborative effort involving Zenith Aircraft Co., which supplied the aircraft kit, Rotech Research Canada, Ltd., which installed the engine, and Skytek Aircraft Services, which assembled the airframe. […]
Zenith Workshops: Like taking a test drive
MEXICO, Mo. — Most people would not buy an automobile without taking it out for a test drive, so Zenith Aircraft encourages people to attend a builders’ workshop to test their aptitude for building before buying an aircraft kit. That is why 70% to 80% of the people who attend a Zenith workshop put off […]
Zenith Open House and Fly-In this Saturday
Zenith Aircraft’s sixth annual “Fly in to Summer” Open Hangar Day and Fly-In Gathering at its kit factory at Mexico Memorial Airport (MYJ) in Missouri is slated for this Saturday, June 22. This will be a fun gathering of Zenith builders, flyers, and enthusiasts, and is an informal grass-roots fly-in gathering open to all aviation […]
Zenith celebrates 20th anniversary
Hundreds of people from all over the country and from as far away as Australia attended the Zenith Open Hangar Day and 20th Anniversary celebration held the weekend of Sept. 22 at the company’s headquarters in Mexico, Missouri. According to a post at EAA.org, picture-perfect weather helped draw upward of 400 attendees and more than […]