“This is the first high-wing design by Van’s,” notes Greg Hughes, Van’s vice president. “We began flying it last month and it flies well, but I want to stress that it is the engineering ...

Pia Bergqvist Van’s Aircraft dropped a bomb at EAA’s AirVenture last week, announcing a—wait for it—high wing backcountry airplane. The company didn’t make a big deal of the major news ...

tuned for what Van's calls the "RV feel," while accommodating the demands of backcountry flying. In early May 2025, the airplane passed a critical milestone: a wing-load test that confirmed the ...

For nearly 50 years, Van’s Aircraft Inc. has offered a series of low-wing, all-aluminum kit planes ... Back-country flying, an outgrowth of the “bush flying” historically done in Alaska ...