Free Model Airplane Plans

Looking for Free Model Airplane Plans?

The following are just a few sites that I've found to have a pretty decent collection of free RC airplane plans. Many of the files are standard image files that can be opened on most any computer. However, a good portion are CAD files such as DWG or DXF files. These plans require a CAD viewing program such as the FREE eDRAWINGS viewer.

If you would like to add another site to this directly, let me know.

Hilbren RC Plans

Hilbren RC Plans has free RC airplane plans for a variety of airplanes including vintage, WW2 era, flying wings and more. Most of the free model airplane plans on this page are in DWG format.

This site gives you a nice preview of the plans when you mouse-over of the file name without having to download them to see what they are.

After you click this link, click the airplane tab at the top to see the free model airplane plans.

Svensons

Svensons Free Model Airplane Plans has plenty of airplanes to choose from! Many of these free RC airplane plans are accompanied by a photo of the finished product.

Most of these plans are image files that can be opened with most computers without having to download special software. They do have a few CAD files in DXF of DWG format.

Thomas Vogel Balsa Dust

Thomas Vogel has posted a large collection of free RC airplane plans. This is a mix of both image and CAD files.

Thomas does a nice job of sorting these free model airplane planes into categories such as scale, aerobatic, gliders, micro RC and more.

General specifications along with thumbnails of either the finished airplane or a preview of the prints allow you to check them out before taking the time to download them.

RC Cook Book

The RC Cook Book has a very large collection of free RC airplane plans. Most are DWG CAD files although there are several available in Gif image files.

There are no preview thumbnails available like most of the other pages, but there are some real gems on this site if you have to time to sort through them.

Free Flight and Indoor RC Airplane plans

Many of the free model airplane plans listed in the sites below were originally designed for free flight or rubber power. Although some of the plans below are actually designed for RC airplanes.

Today's electronic components, such as Spektrum AR6400 Receiver/Servos, are becoming smaller and smaller all the time. Will a little creativity you may be able to turn one of these little guys into a fully functional 4 channel RC airplane!

Art's Hangar

Art's Hanger contains free airplane plans that are designed specifically for small electric powered RC airplanes that can be flown indoors.

All of these files are in PDF format, which is nice if you don't have software for reading CAD files.

Top, side, front, and isometric views in addition to detailed photos are available for each model. There's also a nice description of each model including flying characteristics and set up advice.

Videos of these tiny birds are provided for many of the models on this site. Very nice site, it's a shame it hasn't been updated lately....

F4B Scale Magic

If you're looking to build yourself a hand launched glider from plans, you may want to check this site out.

F4B Scale Magic has free model airplane plans for several hand launched gliders.

These plans are in PDF format and you can preview each plan before downloading it.

Small Flying Arts

If you're looking to build a small free-flight rubber powered plane, this site is for you!

Small Flying Arts has a HUGE selection of free model airplane plans for small free-flight airplanes. The drawings I have looked at are of very nice quaility, most of either PDF, JPG or GIF format.

There are also a few free RC airplane plans available near the bottom you may want to take a look at.

Paul Bradley's Model Airplane Plans Page

Paul Bradley's Model Airplane Plans Page is definitely worth checking out. Mr. Bradley has taken the time to produce some very nice free model airplane plans in PDF format.

Most of these are smaller free-flight airplanes, but there are some free RC airplane plans as well. Check out these plans for an actual radio controlled version of the Star Trek Starship Enterprise!

These plans are in full color PDF format which allows you to use a standard printer to print the plans onto 1/32" thick balsa sheets. Paul provides detailed assembly instructions along with pictures of the finished bird with each plan.