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FLS kits integrate the latest features for safety, performance & reliability. These three FLS kits are in direct response to customer demand for a safe, reliable, and easy to build BD-5. Gone are the days of having to spend 5 to 10 years or more, and 3000+ hours building a BD-5.
- Home of the BD-5 Aircraft
We are currently producing our extensively modernized and...
- Home of the BD-5 Aircraft
We are currently producing our extensively modernized and comprehensive FLS Microjet, and supporting customers of our FLIGHTLINE Series aircraft kits. We also provide parts support and builder services for builders of the original 1970's BD-5 basic materials starter kits.
Sleek as a bullet, efficient as a sailplane, sexy as a little Reno racer, the BD-5 was the key piece in Jim Bede’s 1970s dream of affordable, fun flying for the masses. Bede had already hit a home run, selling more than 800 kits for his boxy, practical, build-it-yourself BD-4.
BD-5. The BD-5 was designed in 1973, and proved to be an extremely popular aircraft. The BD-5 is small and lightweight, and can be either single seat propeller or jet driven. The jet version is listed in the Guinness book of records as the world’s smallest jet.
The BD-5 is a high performance single-place, low-wing, pusher-configuration sport plane. Design features include all-metal construction, mechanical retractable landing gear among the industry finest, detachable wings,and wrist action side stick control as in modern day fighter aircraft.
BD-5 – Experimental Aircraft & Kit Planes. The BD-5 was designed in 1973, and proved to be an extremely popular aircraft. The BD-5 is small and lightweight, and can be either single seat propeller or jet driven. The jet version is listed in the Guinness book of records as the world’s smallest jet.
Here you'll find pictures, information and web links related to the BD-5 as well as to other Bede aircraft and experimental aviation in general. Enjoy!
