Glasair Aircraft Owners Association

Mods

Tractor to Flush Gas Caps

Mods

Vortex Generators on a Sportsman

Mods

Acme Aero Stinger Tailwheel Suspension in a GlaStar

Events

GAOA Gathering at Lakeland Florida

GlaStar & Sportsman

What to Expect When You’re Expecting… an Engine

GAOA Merchandise: Order yours today!

GLASTAR & SPORTSMAN

Maintenance

Service Bulletin 73 for GlaStar and Sportsman: Garmin GSA 28 Autopilot...

Glasair Aviation issued Service Bulletin 73 for all Sportsman and GlaStar Aircraft equipped with Garmin GSA 28 autopilot servos. From the Service Bulletin: Compliance Time: Before...

GlaStar horizontal stabilizer spars and ribs

How to & Builder Tips

Horizontal Stabilizer Building Tips for the GlaStar and Sportsman

Building a horizontal stabilizer jig: We got the full kit Jan 2nd (1996). Got it home without incident. There was a key part on...

Ventral Fin for Yaw Stability

Mods

Using an Engine Dehumidifier

Maintenance

GlaStar COM antenna placement forward of bulkhead B

GlaStar Antenna Installation Tips

How to & Builder Tips

Steve Brault's Sportsman landing at Arlington Municipal. Photo by Terry Green/Hawg Wild Photography.

Cylinder Head and Oil Temperature Management on a Glasair Sportsman

Mods

GLASAIR

How-to and Builder Tips

Glasair Wheel Pants and Nose Gear Strut Fairings

Written by Jim Dutton Glasair FT Builders - file this information away for future reference when you start installation of the wheel pants and nose...

How-to and Builder Tips

Fillers and Sanding Material

Q: How about some comments on fillers? Qcell takes forever to cure enough so it can be sanded. A: If you want to use qcell...

lightweight-small-jack

Lightweight Custom Jack

Maintenance

Glasair Super III

Flying

Glasair Elevator Trim Cable Crimping Tool

How-to and Builder Tips

Measuring Catalyst

How to & Builder Tips

PEOPLE & PLACES

Herb Karkheck at SnF 2014

Events

Sun ‘n Fun 2014 Postcard

Herb Karkheck organized another great brat-roast party at the 2014 Sun ‘n Fun Fly In for the Glasair Aircraft Owners Association. He reports that...

Pilot logbook cover

LODA

Flying

How many people can escape a shower under one GlaStar wing? John Lake, Steve Tillinghast, Margaret & Charlie Burton, Heidi Tillinghast, Mike & Teri Ray, Arlo Reeves, Dave Ammenti and photographer Ann Walker can.

The 8th Annual Columbia Fly-In is a Success!

Events

Ferrying Sportsman N124MK Back to the U.S.

GlaStar & Sportsman

GlaStar N533WW Down in Utah

Flying

Landing at Oshkosh.

AirVenture – Oshkosh 2013

Events

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ARTICLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

Leading Edge Lights

How to & Builder Tips

Building a GlaStar—Presentation by Dave Prizio

Events

Sportsman Kits Available Again

News

Making Cowl Bumps

How to & Builder Tips

GlaStar Nose Fork Modification for 5.00 x 5 Wheel and Tire

Mods

RESOURCES

Dave Ammenti's GlaStar

GlaStar Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

glastar kit delivered in driveway

New Builder?

Resources

SensenichDirect Stoddard-Hamilton Propellers

Glasair

Sensenich Fixed-Pitch Propeller Nomenclature and Repitching

Maintenance

Symphony SA 160

Symphony SA 160 Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Stoddard-Hamilton Electrical Parts Cross-Reference

Resources

Glasair I, II, III Options & Accessories Catalog (Archive)

Glasair

Strength of Riveted Joints

Resources

ABOUT US

The Glasair Aircraft Owners Association is the one must-join association for Glasair, GlaStar, Sportsman 2+2, Merlin, and OMF Symphony builders, owners, pilots, and enthusiasts. If you’re currently building, flying—or dreaming of building and flying one—this is the place for you! We are not affiliated with Glasair Aviation, LLC., but we maintain a great working relationship. Our members can be found worldwide.

Disclaimer: This website contains information submitted by our members about building their airplanes. Some methods they employ may differ from the factory instructions. Builders are advised that they are responsible for their own construction methods and should check with the factory if any of the information included on this website differs from the factory manuals. The Glasair Aircraft Owners Association has not checked the accuracy or safety of any information included on these web pages and any users of this information do so completely at their own risk.

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