ATC Stunned After Pilot Reveals He Built His Own Airplane… ‘2,600 Hours Later, It’s Done’

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Did you Did you build that plane yourself?

[00:00:03]Yep.

[00:00:05]Roger, thank you very much. We were all wondering up here.

[00:00:08]Yeah, it's just It's just like putting together a model plane. I mean, it just comes in a box. Big box called the semi.

[00:00:14]You just put one part together and 2,600 hours later it's done.

[00:00:18]Wow. November 7 Kilo Foxtrot, that is a lot of time.

[00:00:23]A lot of it is learning. I had like 1,500 pages of it to peruse through to learn how to do this. I had no clue.

[00:00:31]November 7 Kilo Foxtrot, one of the controllers up here may be in that position pretty soon.

[00:00:37]Well, it's all easy when you know how.

[00:00:41]It's the learning how that's hard.

[00:00:44]November 7 Kilo Foxtrot, he's definitely going to need to know how, but thank you very much.

[00:00:49]It can be done. I did it. Anybody can do it.

[00:00:53]What's your tower buddy going to build?

[00:00:54]November 7 Kilo Foxtrot, he's unsure right now. He's looking around.

[00:00:59]Find your mission first.

[00:01:01]November 7 Kilo Foxtrot, we will let him know.