The Hangar

What's in the hangar

Our full-size SeaRey and Cessna 182, plus the RC planes on our bench. Most of the RC fleet is 3D printed at home and flown on a Spektrum radio.

RC fleet

LILcub

1S

Avion Airplanes · 3D-printed micro Cub

A tiny 3D-printed Piper Cub on a single-cell battery.

Swift S-1

3S

3DLabGang · 1380 mm 3D-printed glider

A sleek, printed sailplane with an electric motor for climbing out.

Foam scratch build

TBD

Built from full-size plans · Foam plane with a carbon spar

Cut from full-size paper drawings, with a carbon fiber spar in the wing.

Wet Biscuit

4S

Cactus Craft · 3D-printed jet boat

The one that doesn't fly. A printed jet boat on a 4-cell battery.

Real planes

The full-size planes Jon flies. Trip stories from each one are on the way.

Jon's SeaRey N771JM parked on the ramp at sunset

Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey

Amphibian

Jon's plane · N771JM

A two-seat amphibious light sport plane that can take off and land on water or a runway.

Cessna 182 Skylane

Four seats

Co-owned with a partner

A four-seat, high-wing Cessna, built for longer trips with the whole family aboard.

The SeaRey up close

The SeaRey from behind, tied down under a sunset skyThe SeaRey on the ramp at sunset, N771JM on the tailView out the SeaRey window: wing strut, blue float and the ground belowThe SeaRey instrument panel in flight with clouds aheadThe SeaRey outside the hangar under storm cloudsThe SeaRey from the rear, showing the blue swept tail