Congrats to Mike, who writes with some great news and advice to people who are building: N612AW took to the skies after 8 years of building. Many thanks to my patient wife and family. Also thanks to the riveting help of Don Hornick. The help and support of all the RV owners at KRNM […]
[…] years of building. Nothing to add about the 8… Fantastic, easy to fly, performance! Thanks a lot to Van’s support which is just the best. “My Little Dream” is powered by a IO360 (180hp), is pulled by a WhirlWind 200RV and has a GRT Sport SX as a brain. Attached some pictures with the Griiiiinnnnnnnn!
Congrats to William on the completion and first flight of his RV-8! He writes to tell us: After fourteen years of start and stop building (Airline Pilot Schedule) N159WP flew for 1 hour and fifteen minutes on September 26, 2019, and many more since. The airplane is a delight to fly, and gets accolades […]
Congratulations to Ben on the first flight of his RV-10. He writes in to share his story and a video: This day finally arrived. After 13 1/2 years building my RV-10 N104EE took flight for the first time this afternoon on a gorgeous fall day in Coeur d Alene, ID. What a ride! Hard […]
[…] who writes: Had instructor Bob Salway ride with me. Weather at CYXX was CAVOK with no wind. Aeroplane is a slow build with a Titan O-320 D1A and a hartzell propeller. It has all Van’s steam gauges and a sliding canopy. The aeroplane jumped off the ground and established a positive climb rate. It […]
Well after 8 years and 8 months of building (and a ton of help) I finally received my Certificate of Airworthiness. Have been through Mike Seager’s training in the RV7 plus a few flights in a couple other taildraggers, I just needed the weather to cooperate. November 7th turned out to be the day, […]
Congrats to Andrew, who writes in to tell us: First flight by RAAus instructor Will Owen. One circuit. No issues. Very happy with Vans and kit. One of four flying in Western Australia.
Steve’s report was short and sweet: “Thanks Van’s staff for the great design.”
[…] Ken, who sends in this report on his first flight: This particular airplane is my second RV (I previously built an -8 which first flew in 2002) and, over the last 21 months spent working on it, I’ve renewed my acquaintance with the RV community (the very best part of building an RV!) and […]
[…] in December. Congrats, Travis! Hi Van’s, Just wanted to let you know that RV-7 #74585 received it’s Airworthiness from an FAA inspector the first week of December and made it’s first flight on December 19th 2019 after 3 years and 1 month of building. After spending a day doing transition training with Jan Bussell […]
Congratulation to Charlie Derk, who sends his RV-10 first flight report! Four years and 5 months of blood, sweat and tears finally paid off as N688CD took her maiden voyage on Monday. What a thrill. Everything worked as it should and the plane was a dream to fly. Pretty amazing feeling when you start […]
[…] my 350 hours of flying with her. I would like to take this occasion to pass on special thanks to my friend Peter Schneider. He grew up in NYC and speaks perfect English – which I, unfortunately, do not. He helped me with technical translations and, very important, with phone calls to Van’s support hotline.
Mark writes in to tell us about his first flight: Great flight. It flew hands off and handled very well. Almost 9 years of building was most certainly worth the effort.
[…] Joliet Regional Airport (KJOT). The flight was uneventful….just what I was planning on… I’m glad I decided on the flight training, so I knew what to expect and it performed as expected. The power plant is a Lycoming O-540 fitted with the EFII system 32 Fuel injection system. The prop is a Whirlwind HRT77. […]
[…] training -7 I flew with Mike Seager. Overall, it was a non-event! I went up with Brian Branscomb under AC 90-116, a hangar neighbor, ATP, CFI, A&P and lifelong home builder with ~10 first flights in his logbook to help keep eyes on things; he said he was a little bored — a perfect […]
Congrats to Carl on RV Number Three – this one an RV-8! He writes: This is my third RV, and I suspect I have one more to go. For now however I have a lot of flying to catch up with. Paint will be late fall.
Congratulations to Brad on the first flight of his RV-9A! He writes to tell us all about it and to provide some words of encouragement for builders: After 11 years and 2 days N8729M finally took to the air on 6/18/2020 at KCFO in Watkins, CO. What an awesome feeling! Thanks to my wife […]
[…] down for a bit to cool things off, but once temps were back in line again, I took off to circle around the airport. Plane performed well and the engine sounded great. I was expecting a heavy wing of some kind but none existed which was a nice surprise. It flew perfectly straight first […]
Paul writes to tell us all about the first flight of the world’s newest RV-7A! Congrats to him and Ron! Finally! At last! The project I started 19 years ago has flown. It was a long time in the making, but was enjoyable all the way. You know the saying “Life is what happens […]
A huge congrats to Pete, who writes in to tell us: First flight went very well, plane flew straight and true and engine ran well, add another big RV Grin to the collection. What an awesome plane to fly.
