# Experimental aircraft ID

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904 "2015-03-01T01:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904/1 "2015-03-01T01:55:10Z")

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I have the feeling I’ve asked this before, but…

[Can you ID this V-tail experimental aircraft](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Experimental-Aircraft-Airplane-Aluminum-Lightweight-Drone-/291394742309)?

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**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904/2 "2015-03-01T02:00:02Z")

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Looks like a Sonex, but not sure, I know that have one version that is a V-tail.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904/3 "2015-03-01T02:23:21Z")

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That would have been my guess, if I could have remembered the name. But the tails look like they’re swept differently, and there are longitudinal ‘ribs’ on it that I don’t see on a Sonex Waiex.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904/4 "2015-03-01T02:47:56Z")

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Maybe a Davis DA-2?

> **[Davis DA-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_DA-2)**
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> The Davis DA-2 is a light aircraft designed in the United States in the 1960s and was marketed for homebuilding. While it is a low-wing monoplane of largely conventional design with fixed tricycle undercarriage, the DA-2 is given a distinctive appearance by its slab-like fuselage construction and its V-tail. The pilot and a single passenger sit side-by-side. Construction of the aircraft is sheet aluminum throughout, with the sole compound curves formed a fiberglass cowling and fairings. The prot...

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experimental-aircraft-id/713904/5 "2015-03-01T03:01:09Z")

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It’s smaller than the DA-2. Maybe a pure homebuilt designed and constructed by some dude in his back yard?