Hmmm...if that is serial number one, I wonder if it's mobile, or flyable? Love to see it brought to AirVenture next summer!
See my previous post. Registration expired in June of this year.
Slider didn't become available until around 1992.
If I remember correctly, Alan Tolle built the first "customer built" -6. It was white/blue.
Completed in 1989, the year I started building mine.
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Looks like #3 is owned by Donald Neff in Johnson Lake, Nebraska.
N489, completed by Neil Vanderzanden in December of 1993, 7 months after mine (plans number 20560).
Mel,
Where did you find this information? I have plans number 20306 and am just wondering where that falls in the grand scheme of things. Would that be plans set 306? How does the numbering system work?
Thanks
The red plane in the museum is actully kit number 1 of the RV-6T which was originally a mock up for the the nigerian airforce trainer. It later went on to be Vans transition trainer. I have over three thousands hours in the plane and a lot of people took their training in it. Tail number 66VA. Mike
... (museums sometimes make mistakes)
RV-6 serial # 1 first flew sometime in 1885 (I think) ...
Posters sometimes make mistakes...
Was this airplane doing demo rides at Oshkosh in 1999? It looks really familiar. If so, i (and many others) got my $30k free ride in that one.In about 1998 it was converted to a tail dragger and Mike used it for tail dragger transition training until it was retired about 2005 or so, and replaced with an RV-7
Was this airplane doing demo rides at Oshkosh in 1999? It looks really familiar. If so, i (and many others) got my $30k free ride in that one.