[Mark Henry]

A friend of the family's son built an early Kitfox, funny thing was they were somewhat poor, lived of the grid, had a small shop 15' X what ever the wing is in length, etc, etc.
Took him 5 years to build, mostly because of cost, bought parts as he could, he found a rotax 912 (IIRC for sure a rotax) with half time left on it.

He had to wait forever to get it registered, testing it in early spring frozen lake with skis but wouldn't lift off for fearing he'd get in poop. Two cops who were interested came to see him, he told them the story, they said just fly it but please don't crash, so up he went with them cheering him on. After he said to them that he wished he could get to the local airstrip before the ice went out, again they said "just don't crash it". So the next week he did, no wheels just skis as he couldn't afford wheels. He landed it on wet grass no problem, had friends help him drag it into the hanger. Bought wheels later that spring.
It's his pride and joy, landed it in my backyard for a visit once. I bet he has 2-3000 hours on it by now, still flies it, he's in his 70's now.