AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 2019 - 82
KITFOX OWNERS Dusti and Bob
Jones have taken their cruiser and
created a nationwide traveling
machine by folding the wings
and pulling it behind a Chevy van
converted to an RV. The entire
unloading and unfolding process
takes about 10 minutes.
roll into the driveway in Marathon,
Florida, in early December. The
wind is blowing 15 knots after a
typical winter front has passed, but
the sky is a deep blue and it's barely
shorts temperature. Bob and Dusti Jones' place is full of
toys. There is one large boat in the driveway, two trucks,
a Porsche Panamera, two Chevrolet vans converted into
recreational vehicles, and two trailers. At the end of the
driveway is the Florida Bay, and across the street another
boat on a lift. But we're here for the trailers.
The 50-foot trailer is white, and impossibly wide. It is
nondescript, and looks like it could carry lawn equipment,
or maybe an old car. Bob lowers the back gate and the propeller and blaze-orange flames on the cowling of his Kitfox
4 are facing us. Immediately you're taken to your childhood. It looks like something you would have opened on
Christmas and played with for hours.
It's not entirely unusual to see an aircraft in a trailer.
Gliders are often trailered, but those are tailor-made trailers and the wings come completely off the fuselage. A few
Experimental and Light Sport manufacturers offer folding
wings and a basic trailering setup. But even for those models that do offer folding wings, it's unusual that someone
uses the capability for anything other than keeping the airplane at their house near an airport. Bob and Dusti have put
100,000 road miles on theirs, despite the Kitfox people telling Bob, "It's meant to be flown."
The journey started with a declaration. Bob had just
flown the Kitfox from Maryland to their winter house in
the Florida Keys. The flight had been slow, but even for
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