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

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...

sportsman nosewheel lift

Mods

Sportsman Nosewheel Lift

My trip to Alaska spurred me to look for ways to increase the prop-to-ground clearance of my Sportsman. Since increasing the size of the...

Sportsman Service Bulletin 71

Maintenance

Strut drilling jig

Tips for Installing and Drilling the GlaStar Wing Struts

How to & Builder Tips

Look Ma, No Mags!

Glasair

GlaStar baggage floor supporting flange

James Siebel’s Flat Baggage Floor

Mods

GLASAIR

How-to and Builder Tips

Mating the Wing to the Fuselage

Submitted by Chris Smith Gustavus, Alaska I just passed another milestone in building my IIS RG-connecting the wing and the fuselage. I only have a few...

advanced aero G3

Glasair

Advanced Aero Announces Production of G2 and G3, Web Store, and...

Advanced Aero Components (AAC) announced in a press release that the new web store is now open for business. Ian Baker, the company's CEO...

Hinge Pin Safetying

How-to and Builder Tips

Hazardous Chemicals in the Building Process

Maintenance

Glasair Fuselage Hoist

How-to and Builder Tips

Spark plug tray, adjusting tool, gap gage, spark plug socket and extension, magneto timer, torque wrench, combination wrenches, ratchet, socket and extension

Tools to Maintain Your Sportsman or GlaStar

Maintenance

PEOPLE & PLACES

Lifestyle

Flying to Alaska

Some places just enchant you. No matter how many times you go there it isn’t enough. Alaska is like that for me. It was...

Right rudder, right rudder, right rudder...

Transition Training Challenges

Flying

Testing the Airspeed Indicator

Flying

Glasair I – Still Strong After 20 Years

Flying

GlaStar enlarged cargo door modification

Large Baggage Door for the GlaStar

Mods

Ferrying Sportsman N124MK Back to the U.S.

GlaStar & Sportsman

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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

Glasair II-S, Photo © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons

History of Glasair Aviation

Resources

Strength of Riveted Joints

Resources

Paint Codes for Matching GlaStar Gelcoat

How to & Builder Tips

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

Merlin Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Symphony SA 160

Symphony SA 160 Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Sportsman carbon-fiber

Sportsman Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Stoddard-Hamilton Electrical Parts Cross-Reference

Resources

SensenichDirect Stoddard-Hamilton Propellers

Glasair

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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