Zenith Aircraft @ Work & Play Around the World

See some of the hundreds of completed
STOL CH 701 aircraft from around the world...

Hundreds of flying ZODIAC aircraft
from around the world...

Latest News & Updates

Visit Zenith's Facebook page page for the latest news and updates, and also visit Zenith.Aero - the website for active Zenith builders and owners from around the world.

Video Clips
from around the World
Exciting flying home video clips from builders and pilots from around the world can be viewed on video sharing websites, such as YouTube.

Videos: 701 | 750 | 801 | 650...
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Building and Flying
in Africa
WAASPS builds and operates airplanes in Western Africa

Patricia with the STOL CH 701 on the cover of "99 News," the official magazine of the International Organization of Women Pilots (Oct. Nov. Dec. 2011 issue)
"This amazing woman is setting a new level for firsts, including the first woman to obtain Ghana’s National Pilots License... She is now teaching, engineering, flying, doing photo-video missions, training, conversion flights and check rides"

The president of Ecuador, South America, inspects a STOL CH 801 built in Ecuador for missionaries by I-Tec (Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center) headed by Steve Saint.

STOL CH 701 and 801 aircraft, assembled in Ecuador, are used in South America by missionaries and humanitarian organizations.
Read more...

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On October 15, 2008, Barrington Irving took off in a Zodiac plane built entirely by Miami high school students.

Barrington Irving is the youngest person and first pilot of African descent on record to fly solo around the world. Read more and watch report from MSNBC.

"Zenair News"
From the November / December 2008 issue of the Zenair News: Guy Kane's STOL CH 701 from New Caledonia

In September and October 2008, Guy Kane and his plane took part in the "Lapérouse Expedition," a major French expedition to research the 18th century explorer Lapérouse's mysterious shipwreck in the south Pacific. See video clip

Scenes from
Zenith Aircraft Company's
17th annual OPEN HANGAR DAY and Fly-In Gathering (2008)

Building and Flying
in Africa
WAASPS builds and operates airplanes in Western Africa

Builders' Report:
Pictorial report on attending Zenith Aircraft's hands-on factory workshop.

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A Tale of Two Zodiacs: How two brothers built two planes in four months...

Scenes from
Zenith Aircraft Company's
16th annual OPEN HANGAR DAY and Fly-In Gathering (2007)

SkyJeep Update:
The Kibidula Farm Institute flies the STOL CH 701 in Tanzania (East Africa)

Kibidula Farm Institute of Tanzania and their Sky Jeep STOL CH 701

Photo Gallery
Flying the STOL CH 701 and
STOL CH 801 to sun'n Fun 2008

Builders in Brasil
Hands-on scratch-building
workshop in Brazil

National Geographic magazine used a STOL CH 701 in Chad's Zakouma National Park (Africa) to photograph massive elephant herd movements, featured in the March 2007 issue of the magazine.

National Geographic magazine, March 2007, page 156

Click here for the National Geographic story
Click here for more info on the STOL CH 701 used for anti-poaching in Africa.

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Light Sport Adventure: Christopher Desmond flies his STOL CH701 to Copperstate from Northern California

Missionary pilot Mike Dawson
and his STOL CH 801
in the Amazon jungle
need your help

Missionary pilot Mike Dawson and the STOL CH 801

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Video
Clip

Flying on Skis
in Alaska

Three Wheelin' with the
STOL CH 701 on a rocky river bed

Glider Towing
with the ZODIAC

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Sport Pilot in a Week
Popular Mechanics magazine Air Challenge: Davin Coburn successfully completes a sport pilot license in a week.

FAA Examiner Michael Price (right) hands Davin Coburn a Temporary Airman Certificate following my check ride.

Flight training in the Caribbean
(in a ZODIAC!)

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Students and mentors scratch build
STOL CH 701 project (update)

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Cross-country photos: Paul Reinders ferried a ZODIAC XL Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) from California to Georgia.
Click here to view the photos

"The area ahead of me encompassed some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere in the world..."

Scale RC models of Zenith kits:

ZODIAC XL builder/pilot Alex Roca delivers relief supplies to Hurricane Katrina evacuees with his airplane

The April 2006 issue of Voice of the Martyrs newsletter reports on a missionary's use of a STOL CH 701 in South America to reach "areas that cannot be reached by foot or boat."

VOM-USA, Voice of the Martyrs, Inc. April, 2006

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Oshkosh 2005 Splash-In

The Zetterlind's share great photos of their trip to the EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh) fly-in with the STOL CH 701 Amphibian.

Zodiac Flight
to Tunisia and Libya
(from Switzerland)

Builder Story:
"Tim Garrett designs military fighter planes by day and is building his own airplane in the basement of his home by night, all while battling multiple sclerosis."