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

Sportsman SB 74 Tailwheel Assembly Compressing Foam Core

GlaStar & Sportsman

Sportsman Service Bulletin #74 – Fuselage Tail Cone Damage

Glasair Aviation published a service bulletin to address crushed or delaminated portions of the tail cone near the aft tailwheel bracket. The SB is...

Flying

The GlaStar: An Instructor’s Perspective

By Michael Crowell, reprinted with permission from INFLIGHT Magazine Mike is a CFII, Advanced and Instrument Ground Instructor, an FAA Safety Counselor, and a check...

Tires for Alaska

Mods

A wooden stiffener attached to the GlaStar gear leg dampens the forward-aft motion of the gear during ground operations

GlaStar Gear Leg Dampers

How to & Builder Tips

Glastar left wing in jig

So, When Will You Be Ready to Fly?

GlaStar & Sportsman

Glastar floor panel

GlaStar Folding Baggage Compartment Floor

Mods

GLASAIR

How-to and Builder Tips

Glasair Exhaust Systems

Noise Noise, as it pertains to our discussion here, is simply unwanted sound. Many people are bothered and angered by aircraft noise. Although in metropolitan...

How to & Builder Tips

Fitting A McCauley Propeller on a 4-Cylinder Lycoming-Engine Glasair

Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft does not stock a McCauley spinner installation kit for the Glasair I, II, or GlaStar aircraft. We do stock a McCauley spinner install...

Horizontal Stabilizer Hinge Bracket Alignment

How-to and Builder Tips

Figure 1. View looking down right side - Internal passages FVFV top.

Testing Procedure for Fuel Vent Float Valve Check Valves

Maintenance

Unsticking Cleveland Master Cylinders

How-to and Builder Tips

Glasair Control Stick Clearance Tips

How-to and Builder Tips

PEOPLE & PLACES

Herb Karkheck at SnF 2014

Events

Sun ‘n Fun 2014 Postcard

Herb Karkheck organized another great brat-roast party at the 2014 Sun ‘n Fun Fly In for the Glasair Aircraft Owners Association. He reports that...

Graceland!

Lifestyle

Pirates at Columbia

Pirate Pilots Swoop in on the Columbia Fly-in

Events

Lakes and Suttons over Idaho. Photo: Arlo Reeves.

Smiley Creek 2017

Events

Aerial Photography

Lifestyle

So You Want to Fly to Canada, eh?

Lifestyle

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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

Symphony SA 160

Symphony SA 160 Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Stoddard-Hamilton Electrical Parts Cross-Reference

Resources

Dave Ammenti's GlaStar

GlaStar Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

SensenichDirect Stoddard-Hamilton Propellers

Glasair

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

History of Glasair Aviation

Resources

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

Merlin Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

Glasair I, II, III Options & Accessories Catalog (Archive)

Glasair

Glasair Specifications and Performance

Airplanes

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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