Glasair Aircraft Owners Association

Lifestyle

Maine to Alaska in a Sportsman—A First Timer’s Guide

Mods

Vortex Generators on a Sportsman

Mods

Tractor to Flush Gas Caps

Mods

Acme Aero Stinger Tailwheel Suspension in a GlaStar

Events

GAOA Gathering at Lakeland Florida

GAOA Merchandise: Order yours today!

GLASTAR & SPORTSMAN

SilverHawk EX

Maintenance

Safety alert: Precision Airmotive Fuel Injection Servos

Attention All Owners of aircraft with Lycoming Fuel Injected Engines. Please read these safety alerts from Precision Airmotive. Hex plug 383493 coming loose from regulator cover. Service...

Setzman N11YM

Mods

Setzman N11YM Maiden Flight

I conduct most of the Phase 1 initial flights on Sportsman aircraft that are born out of the TWTT program. Even though I am...

Ventral Fin for Yaw Stability

Mods

Gravity fuel flow schematic

Orville’s Gravity Fuel System

Mods

Redesigned Sportsman float struts

Float Rigging Design & Maintenance, Part 1

Maintenance

Nutplate Installation

How to & Builder Tips

GLASAIR

bug plug - prevent insects from crawling in

Maintenance

Bug Plug

How to make an inexpensive plug to keep bugs out of your airplane Buy a 100-pack of bright orange “fuzzy sticks." Used to be commonly...

Superior XP-400 piston. Top two are compression rings and the bottom is the oil control ring.

How to & Builder Tips

Engine Break-in

Break-in of an engine refers primarily to the initial phase of operation in which the piston rings will "seat" against the cylinder walls. Run-in refers...

Glasair III engine installation

Glasair III Engine Alignment, Cowling, and Spinner Installation

How-to and Builder Tips

Glasair Super II-TD

Glasair Model Designators

Glasair

Picking Up/Unloading Your Kit

How to & Builder Tips

composite-lap-joint-test

Composite Joint Testing

Glasair

PEOPLE & PLACES

Flying

Wolfgang Drahanowski’s GlaStar Flies

After 11 1/2 years of building time, one more Glastar experimental aircraft (OE-VWD #5605) joined the flying fleet on Sunday, January 16 2011, at...

Ted Setzer's Sportsman

Independence, Oregon Fly-in Set for August 14-16 2015

Events

First Aid Kit for Small Aircraft

Ownership

Superior XP-360 roller lifters

Superior Engine Build School

Ownership

NASA artist's rendering of a microburst.

Caught by Downdraft on Short Final

Flying

Diesel Sportsman Update

Lifestyle

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ARTICLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

What to Expect When You’re Expecting… an Engine

GlaStar & Sportsman

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

RESOURCES

GlaStar assembly

GlaStar Assembly Sequence

Resources

Stoddard-Hamilton Electrical Parts Cross-Reference

Resources

Glasair Merlin on its first test flight in Arlington, Washington.

Merlin Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Sportsman carbon-fiber

Sportsman Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Strength of Riveted Joints

Resources

glastar kit delivered in driveway

New Builder?

Resources

Dave Ammenti's GlaStar

GlaStar Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Sensenich Fixed-Pitch Propeller Nomenclature and Repitching

Maintenance

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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