Bob Reed's

KIS Super Cruiser Project

(NO, It's not mine but I wish it were...Photo thanks to Ray Clegg.)

(Pulsar - Super Cruiser & KIS 150 Builders Support Site)


After many years of dreaming, planning, talking and reading about Experimental Aircraft, I finally decided that it was time to quit procrastinating and start building.  Late in 1996, after an extensive review of my mission requirements along with the specifications of the available plans and kits, I choose the KIS Cruiser from TRI-R Technologies in Oxnard Ca. and started on a new adventure.  This is going to take a long time (A very long time) and I am planing on enjoying every minute of the process.

Jan.2008 - I knew it was going to take a long time but here I am almost 11 years later and I am still inching along.  It seems that life has a strange way of getting in the way of our hobbies.  I have started working on the plane again after almost four years of no activity.  It was in storage for more than three years.  I finally got a hangar but it is more than an hours drive from my house so that limits my available time even more.  I am more determined than ever to finish but will make no estimate as to how much longer it will take.

Sept. 2010 - Last October I mad a promise to my wife that I would remodel the kitchen in our new (old) house in Arlington.  I am keeping that promise and have been working on it all year.  The cabinets are built with only a half dozen cabinet doors to finish.  Then comes sanding, painting, and installation.  Removed all the old tile floor a couple of weeks ago and will be replacing with wood floor.  Still another two months of weekend work and maybe a week of major demolition and installation to go.  With any luck and a lot of determination I should be back working on the plane by the first of the new year.


This web site will be a chronicle of my project and hopefully an aid to other homebuilt aircraft builders.  I have expanded this site to provide a common repository for other Super Cruiser and KIS 150 Builders to share their construction photos, completion photos, and construction ideas.  Their help in providing updates and ideas is a tremendous aid to all builders.  My Thanks to each of the participating builders.

Thank you for stopping by.  

Bob Reed

 "Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"      
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

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