Phone: 586-549-8211

E-mail: dave@planecanopies.com

   For the past 40+ years countless satisfied customers have purchased canopies from Jim Miller Canopies, located in Kansas City, Mo.  In 2009, Jim sold his business to us at Plane Canopies, LLC.  We feel very fortunate to have Jim still active and providing our company ongoing consultation and representation.

  After extensive training with Jim at his facility in KC, and after moving all the equipment; ovens, molds, tooling, inventory, and supplies to Chesterfield, Michigan, we’re finally set up and ready to continue Jim’s 40+ year tradition of providing high quality, optically correct canopies to the experimental aircraft and homebuilt market. 

  On behalf of Plane Canopies, I would like to let you know how pleased we are to continue providing quality windshields, canopies, and canopy kits at affordable prices.   

   As a canopy manufacturer, Jim is probably best known for his Pitts S1 canopies and his pioneering in the art of vacuum slip forming canopies.  Vacuum slip forming techniques allow us to reproduce a canopy to the same specs every time, so if you ever need a replacement windshield, or canopy, you won’t need to make a new canopy frame.   

  Jim’s canopies are in use around the world, for a very brief history of Jim’s success over the years, please see the following photos. 

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Then & now

Jim Miller and his award winning Tailor Titch; of course Jim made the canopy for his Titch and provided many more Titch canopies to builders around the world.

 

 

 

 

Pitts S1C with newer longer rails; longer rails are standard with our Pitts canopy kits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EAA Red Devil Aerobatic Team installed Jim Miller windshields and canopies on their Pitts S1 aircraft. 

Left: Charlie Hillard’s Pitts S1-S “Red Devils 1” 

Right: The Red Devil Team aircraft fitted with Jim Miller’s windshields and canopies. 

 

 

 

 

Left: Starduster 1 with a Pitts style canopy (it’s not the Pitts canopy, but a little larger overall).

Right: Acro Sport 1 windshield with built-in mounting flange.  We can accomplish some amazing things with Vacuum Slip Forming!

 

Left: Revolution Helicopter.

Right: John’s Emeraude, all five sections of the canopy and windshield were custom made …. we still have the molds if you need the parts.

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Navy XNQ-1.  This was a custom build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Red Devil photo, just because I like this one from the EAA Oshkosh Museum!