Like many others before me, I started in this wonderfull hobby in the early 70's. Having a very limited budget then left me with the hopes of someday building the planes that I wanted during that era at some othertime in the future when funds were more available. Fast forward to today, where did all that time go (not to mention my funds)?

I've always admired the Sig Ryan STA plane, and recently I had the good fortune to buy oneon E-bay for a tidy sum of $225.00. Now buying a NIB kit from 1971 makes one wonder if all that money that you are spending will just be for the plans and instruction booklet, after all, the wood in the kit is 41 years old! My kit arrived recently and I was eager to open it and check its contents.It was like a time capsule. I found the wood to be of the highest quality with no warping, twisting, splitting or hardening of any kind! I really couldn't believe it....

My intentions for this rather hard to find kit is to bringit out of the 70's buildtechnology and bring it into today's technology standards without changing its looksor flight characteristics. There isn't a whole lot of information out there for this type of plane for me to reference. My thoughts are to power this beauty with a DLE20 engine and get rid of all the bellcranks and install individual servosfor all the ailerons and flaps along with a pull-pull set-up on the rudder. So that's it in a nut shell, hope you enjoy the process.........