Send your files. We cut your balsa & ply.
Phoenix Advanced Aeronautics laser-cuts model-aircraft parts from your own DXF or CAD files — ribs, formers, spars, and sheeting in balsa, plywood, and light ply, cut clean and ready to build.
Balsa · Plywood · Light ply · Foam wing cores · Same-day service available
Your design, cut to fit.
You bring the files and pick the material — we turn them into a clean set of laser-cut parts ready to assemble.
Balsa, plywood & light ply
Aircraft-grade balsa, birch plywood, and light ply in a range of thicknesses — supply your own stock or use ours.
Cut from your files
We cut straight from your DXF, DWG, or SVG. Your geometry, exactly as drawn — ribs, formers, spars, and sheeting.
Clean, repeatable edges
Tight, consistent kerf so every part fits and assembles cleanly — and reorders come out identical.
Hot-wire foam wing cores
CNC hot-wire-cut foam cores up to 26 × 16 × 3 in — any of 1,500+ airfoils, with sweep, washout, taper, and spar channels cut right in.
RC designs & custom design
A large catalog of classic RC modeller designs recut from plans as short kits — or have us design an R/C airplane to your specs, cut and ready to build.
The machines doing the cutting.
Every job runs on our own lasers. Here's exactly what they handle — if your parts fit these numbers, we can cut them.
Bench laser — 6 × 50 in
Our workhorse for ribs, formers, spars, and strip stock.
- Cutting area
- 6 × 50 in
- Plywood, up to
- 1/4 in
- Balsa, up to
- 3/8 in
- Cut assist
- Air
Wide-format laser — 45 × 29 in
Full sheet stock and thick sections, in a single pass.
- Working area
- 45 × 29 in
- Laser power
- 60 W diode
- Cuts up to
- 1/2 in · thicker on request
- Materials
- balsa · light ply · basswood
- Cut assist
- Air
Balsa and light ply to 1/2 in as standard — spar stock, cores, and full-depth sections. Need thicker? Ask in your quote; it's often possible. On the roadmap: a 5-axis head that cuts rounded leading edges and shaped trailing-edge stock directly.
4-axis hot-wire foam cutter — 26 × 16 in
CNC hot-wire foam wing cores, root-to-tip in one cut.
- Cutting envelope
- 26 × 16 × 3 in
- Airfoil library
- 1,500+
- Geometry
- sweep · washout · taper
- Spar channels
- cut in place
Four independent axes let root and tip fly different airfoils, chords, and incidence — true tapered, swept, washed-out cores, with spar channels placed in the same cut.
White-label kit production.
Sell short kits under your own brand — we cut production runs from your files and ship nested, labeled sheets ready to bag. Minimum two kits, turnaround as little as 24 hours.
Four steps, no back-and-forth.
Send files
Upload your DXF, DWG, or SVG — a single part or a full sheet of nested parts.
Get a quote
We check the geometry and your material, then quote the cut. No surprises.
We cut
Your parts are laser-cut from your chosen balsa or plywood stock — same-day service available.
Build
Parts arrive cut exactly to your geometry, ready to assemble — our retention tabs are inset to compensate for kerf, so parts snap out flush with no tab stub to sand.
Coming soon.
Cutting your parts is just the start. Here's what we're building next — want first word when one ships? Let us know.
Laser cutting machine
The same laser cutter we run, built for your shop — cut your own balsa and ply part sets in-house.
4-axis CNC hot-wire cutter
A 4-axis CNC hot-wire machine for tapered and swept foam cores — true root-to-tip wing cutting at home.
Design your own aircraft
Our design software, in your browser: model a complete aircraft and validate the aerodynamics — lift/drag polars plus stability and control derivatives — before a single part is cut.
Have files? Send them over.
Upload your DXF, DWG, or SVG along with the material and thickness you want, and we'll come back with a quote and a turnaround time. One part or a full sheet set — we cut both.
Engineering you can check, parts that fit.
Engineer-run shop
Run by aerospace and process engineers — not an anonymous print farm.
Your files, your design
We cut what you send. Your geometry and your design stay entirely yours.
Cut to fit
Precise laser kerf means ribs, spars, and formers line up the first time.
Made in Arizona
Cut and shipped from the United States.
Ready to cut your parts?
Send us your DXF or CAD files and we'll quote your balsa and ply cuts.