Van's RV-7A. If you build it, it will come.
Standard Build Kit. Hard to believe those parts will become a airplane.
DAN'S RV-7A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Welcome to my website.
This website is my journey to aircraft ownership and is being utilized as a builders log of what it will take for me to complete the Van's RV-7A homebuilt aircraft.
In the early 1970s, a skinny young engineer from rural Oregon built himself a better mousetrap. Actually, in this case, it was a better airplane. Richard (Van) VanGrunsven's RV-3 impressed a lot of people, and it turned out that many of them were willing to take on the task of building an airplane from scratch so that they, too could have an airplane that flew like Van's. Seizing the opportunity to work with his real love, aviation, Van's Aircraft, Inc. began in 1973 with partial kits for the RV-3.
These were manufactured by Van himself, working in a small shop behind his house in Reedville, Oregon. Later the company moved to North Plains, Oregon, a small town about 25 miles west of Portland. After twenty years and several expansions, Van's had exhausted the available opportunities in North Plains, so in 2000 the company moved to a new 60,000 square foot facility on the Aurora, Oregon airport. Currently the company employees 70 people (and hundreds more in sub-contract roles) and keeps them busy producing several hundred complete aircraft kits a year and shipping them all over the world.
Please visit Van's website for more Information.
http://www.vansaircraft.com/index.htm
This website is my journey to aircraft ownership and is being utilized as a builders log of what it will take for me to complete the Van's RV-7A homebuilt aircraft.
In the early 1970s, a skinny young engineer from rural Oregon built himself a better mousetrap. Actually, in this case, it was a better airplane. Richard (Van) VanGrunsven's RV-3 impressed a lot of people, and it turned out that many of them were willing to take on the task of building an airplane from scratch so that they, too could have an airplane that flew like Van's. Seizing the opportunity to work with his real love, aviation, Van's Aircraft, Inc. began in 1973 with partial kits for the RV-3.
These were manufactured by Van himself, working in a small shop behind his house in Reedville, Oregon. Later the company moved to North Plains, Oregon, a small town about 25 miles west of Portland. After twenty years and several expansions, Van's had exhausted the available opportunities in North Plains, so in 2000 the company moved to a new 60,000 square foot facility on the Aurora, Oregon airport. Currently the company employees 70 people (and hundreds more in sub-contract roles) and keeps them busy producing several hundred complete aircraft kits a year and shipping them all over the world.
Please visit Van's website for more Information.
http://www.vansaircraft.com/index.htm
