Plans Featured in Model Aviation

Written by Robert Dance. Build your own Short Wing Piper Featured in the October 2013 issue of Model Aviation. Download free plans of the Piper Pacer.

Written by Charles S. Pipes. A good gas design goes electric as featured in the October 2013 issue of Model Aviation. Download free plans of the PT-19.

Written by Michael Smith As featured on page 31 in the February 2013 issue of Model Aviation. As featured in the Model Aviation tablet app. Museums are treasure troves of amazing, and often unique, pieces of our cultural heritage. They preserve these pieces so that we might learn how the world has developed and changed.

Written by Laddie Mikulasko As featured on page 31 in the November 2012 issue of Model Aviation. As featured in the Model Aviation tablet app.

Written by Tom Neibuhr As featured on page 44 in the August 2012 issue of Model Aviation. As featured in the Model Aviation tablet app.

Designed by Bill Noonan Read the entire plans-build article and order plans.


The Good Tern was a straightforward, reliable, easy-to-adjust Embryo-class model, built with the option of floats for ROW (rise-off-water) or wheels for ROT (rise-off-table).

Written and designed by Luther Hux Read the entire plans-build article. Find the entire feature on page 70 in the September 1981 issue.


"RIGHT ON," Time magazine reported, and right on it was. The success of the shuttle program carried an air of excitement.

Written and designed by Jim Young Find the entire feature on page 34 in the January 2012 issue.

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AMA Plans Service Showcase Find the feature on page 33 in the January 2012 issue.

THE MIDWEST AXIFLO RK-049 ducted-fan unit was approximately a year old and the smallest system available on the market when Dick Sarpolus designed his Mini F-16, intending to find out just what a .049 fan could do.

AMA Plans Service Showcase Find the feature on page 134 in the December 2011 issue.



Ken Johnson first saw the full-scale B-2 Spirit fly at the Northrop Grumman factory in Palmdale, California. Impressed, he decided to build an electric FF Sport Scale model of this unique aircraft.