With the recent announcement that Sonex Aircraft is facing bankruptcy I wanted to do this month’s article on their last project known as “the high wing”.

Sonex has always been a value packed and innovated kit plane manufacture. One of my first experiances around Sonex was Dan Weseman Corvair Powered Sonex often called a Cleanex to draw a line on what powers it. Very impressive aircraft all around. The Local EAA chapter 203 in Palm Beach had a Sonex motor glider going when I was part of the group.

Hopefully a well funded / aviation minded investor can come in and save the company and continue operations.

The Experimental Aircraft Channel has been covering what’s been going on with the recent events along with a flight in the high wing

https://www.youtube.com/@ExperimentalAircraftChannel

As of the time of this writing the Sonex page is still up and running, this is the detailed page for the high wing: https://www.sonexaircraft.com/highwing/

It seems like a very good entry into the high wing, off airport market.

With it being a new aircraft there are quite a few YouTube Videos on it:

Sonex’s main playlist:

No RC options I’m aware of but seems like it would be easy to scratch build a scale RC via Balsa or 3D printing.