The winter of 2009 I saw a posting for an RV-9 quick build kit with sliding canopy at a good price. As you work it is really cool to see these pieces of aluminum come together to form parts of an airplane. I ordered my empennage kit on June 26, 2008. The first part of building an RV is the tail section or empennage. It is still fast, stable and a great, efficient cross country plane. I am effectively a no-time pilot and the RV-9 is sometimes referred to as “the trainer”. You can see some of the original pictures on my site.ĭeciding which model RV to build was fairly easy. The salvage company was located just outside of St Louis so we loaded up the truck and headed north. Interesting enough on the way to AirVenture 2008 I called AIG and was informed I was the owner of a bent RV. I waited 6 months for the plane to actually reach the gavel point. The plane was up for auction once, and then pulled. And what an instrument panel! It has a complete glass panel with three GRT screens, Garmin GTX330 & S元0, Turtrak auto pilot, CD player, microwave oven and more options, too many to list. The RV-7A and RV-9 have the same basic fuselage so the instrument panel from this plane would fit in my RV-9. In the process of looking at bent planes I ran across this RV-7A that had a great instrument panel and intriguing engine with only 62 hours on it. I thought maybe I could pick up something “slightly bent” that I could repair and start flying. (an aircraft insurance company) web site where planes that have gone down (wrecked and insured by AIG) and now are owned by the insurance company, are auctioned off. Very impressive looking and with the quick build kit, I felt like it was a plane was within my grasp.Īt some point after AirVenture 2007 someone hooked me up with AIG Aviation, Inc. But what impressed me most was the Van’s Aircraft. WOW, it was airplane overload and then some. So in 2007 Eddie, his son, my son and I loaded up the truck and headed north. I had never been to Oshkosh (AirVenture) but I had heard rumors and it sounded like something I would like. No way could I do that, I just didn’t have that much time and patience. The T-18 is not dissimilar to the RV I am building except it is 100% plan built, which makes it even more impressive. Then he built his second homebuilt a Thorp T-18. I watched for years as my brother would take to the skies. My older brother, Eddie, however went on to get his ticket. At the time I decided I would never own a plane and therefore I would never stay proficient.
I soloed in college but gave it up before I got my license. I am using the instrument panel, engine and a few other odds parts off the donor plane.
Not the normal build, I am tempted to call my plane the “Phoenix” because it is in part the resurrection of an RV-7A that went down in 2007. I will be updating this web site with more information ever few days so please check back from time to time. I am building an RV-9 designed by Van Aircraft, Inc. Welcome to my experimental aircraft web site. My RV-9 first flew in September 2014 and I now have about 200 hours on her. It has been a long time since I updated this page.
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