Students from Bettendorf, North Scott and PV have spent the last four years building a two-passenger plane – earning official certification on Thursday.

For eighty-year-old [Gino Lucci], now an Air Force retiree, that dream involved a recreational vehicle that combined an airplane fuselage and a delivery truck. There it was, rusting in a field ...

Even one of the least expensive kits from leading manufacturer Van’s Aircraft, the RV-9A, equipped with the most modest options—a used, 118-horsepower engine, a wood propeller, and simple ...