Hi I'm Mike, I fly a Quickie Q-200 that I built in my garage in NE St. Pete, Florida. The airplane took me 1500 hours and 18 months to build. If this seems like a long time to you then you won't like this… I think I'm the fastest person to ever build one. I spent at least 3 hours a day and most of the weekend building it over that 18 months. The first flight was in July 1985, seems like a long time ago. People often ask me how hard it is to build an airplane. Its not hard, its monotonous. Lots of little easy to do jobs, very little that requires extraordinary skill. I now have over 1100 hours of flying time on the airplane.  This is equivalent to going around the world 7 times, not bad for a little fiberglass and glue airplane.  At the time I finished the plane it was one of the fastest airplanes flying at 200 MPH.  Today the homebuilt airplanes are going 350+ MPH but the cost of these new planes is out of sight (around $400,000).  I have around $18,000 invested in it and even today no airplane or kit airplane in this performance class comes close to that price.  It's been a great economical aircraft.  The wife and I have traveled from Florida to the Bahamas (many times), Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New York (circled the Statue of Liberty), and every restaurant airport in Florida (almost). 

There are hundreds of these airplanes flying and thousands of kits sold, ooh that’s right, only about 1 of 10 kits sold ever fly's. Another sobering fact about airplane kits. Anyway, if the dream is there you will find a way to finish your airplane, I did, so can you.

This web site will take you chronologically through the construction of what was (18 years ago) the most efficient 2 place airplane ever designed. The same 100hp Continental Aircraft engine that pulls a Cessna 150 along at 95 mph pulls this machine at 207mph. 800mile range, 2 place side by side seating, space for luggage, quite a design for the early 80's. This plane is still one of the most efficient 2 place airplane ever designed. So sit back, click the next page number you desire at the bottom of each page and enjoy… The Building Of A quick Airplane!

Pix taken in LAL (Lakeland) August 1985

Pix taken at PIE May 15  2003

Pix taken at PIE August 17 2007