Kit Aircraft for Sport
Pilots: Photo Gallery #111
Click on thumbnail images for full-size picture. Choose additional photo
galleries on left-hand menu.
|
Video Clips from
around the world on building and flying the Zodiac:
|
|
|
Jim Timm's Zodiac XL
aircraft with tail dragger gear configuration,
powered by the Jabiru 3300 engine.
|
|
The aircraft was built from
a Quick Build Kit.
|
|
Complete custom instrument
panel, with dual Dynon EFIS and autopilot.
The aircraft is equipped
with the optional dual control sticks.
|
|
Jim's cabin is equipped with
the optional dual control sticks and
luxurious upholstery kit.
|
|
|
Bozic .V, of Doboj,
Republika Srpska, Bosnien and Hercegovina
|
|
Roy Garrett's Zodiac XL in
Michigan, powered by a Lycoming O-235-L2C.
|
|
Factory-assembled Zenair Zodiac XL-ULM
delivered in Europe.
|
 |
Zodiac CH
601, with a STOL CH 701
|
|
Zodiac XL
|
|
Climbing in the Zodiac... a
great view over the nose.
|
|
KITPLANES Magazine Builds a ZODIAC XL
Quick-Build Kit, Part 3, August 2007 Issue:
Kitplanes
magazine writer Rick
Lindstrom continues the saga of building and flying his Zodiac XL kit
plane in this third installment, as he reports in the August 2007 issue of Kitplanes
magazine.
|
|
Aaron Gustafson, Iron
Mountain, Michigan:
"After years of scratch building, my 601 finally flew on June 9th,
2007. It is equipped with a Continental 0-200 engine, spring gear and
gull wing doors. It flies great, everything I had hoped for and more. I
tell people 'I made every piece', from engine installation, sewed the
upholstery, all welding including wing tanks and the paint. I learned
very much by doing it myself. It was a great project. It's a great plane
and what will I ever do with my time come winter!?? "
|
|
Zodiac XL aircraft in
Eugene, Oregon (2007).
|
|
A gathering of Zodiac XL
aircraft in Eugene, Oregon.
|
|
Admiring a Zodiac
XL Quick Build Kit at AirVenture 2007 (Oshkosh).
|
|
Al Beyer's beautifully
finished Zodiac HDS, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, powered by a Jabiru 3300
engine.
|
|
Dick Schmidt (Menasha, WI)
with his Corvair powered Zodiac CH 601 HD at AirVenture 2007 (Oshkosh).
|
|
Zodiac XL at AirVenture 2007 (Oshkosh).
|
|
Zodiac XL S-LSA
used for Sport Pilot training
|
|
Zodiac XL SLSA
|
|
A very
complete panel in a Zodiac XL, equipped with the dual
controls.
|
|
|
Jim
Taylor's Zodiac XL, powered by the Jabiru 3300 (Junction City,
Kansas):
"I made the
test flights myself and was very happy with the performance and
flight characteristics of the XL, it being very stable and just a
whole lot of fun to fly. I also installed all the options offered:
The dual sticks and dual rudder brake peddles, the lighting kit,
wing baggage lockers and the extra fuel tanks. I was very pleased
with all of the additions I added and if building another would do
it the same.
"I installed a Jabiru 3300 engine which runs very smooth and
seems well matched and powered for the 601 XL. I have no problem
in cruising at 130 MPH when turning 2800 RPM. The rate of climb is
as you specify, and boy, how well it will climb. The panel has a
complete set of regular instruments as well as a Dynon EFS and a
Blue Mountain Sport EFIS."
|
|
|
|
|
A solid
red Zodiac XL, powered by a Rotax 912S.
|
|
Flying the
Zodiac XL
|
|
Grant Corriveau's Zodiac HDS
powered by a Honda-based CAM100 custom
engine installation (Nanaimo, B.C., Canada)
|
Previous Photo Gallery
|
Next Photo Gallery
|
|
|
|
 "The
Zenith literature package is easily the most complete package I
have received from any light aviation company, and I’ve seen
many other good ones among the hundreds I have studied. Lots and
lots of information is presented with some lovely graphics. The
literature alone is impressive, but the volume of information will
keep you reading for hours. You can get a good idea of what you're
buying without ever leaving your chair." |
|
—
EAA
Experimenter magazine |
|
- Click
here to order the ZODIAC Info Kit with an
all-new DVD
|
Note: Many of these images show customer-built aircraft,
some of which have been modified without the designer's specific approval. Modifications
will affect the specifications and performance of the aircraft. |
