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I took the SportAir workshop, visited Van's with my wife and went on a "free" RV-14 demo ride, cleared out the garage and built some EAA tables, got on the Christmas card list for various tool vendors, finished the practice kits, and just got a delivery of big crate in the garage. Oh no! :eek: What have I done? What was I thinking! What have I gotten myself into?
I just received my tail kit for an RV-14A. Serial number is 140151. |
Since Gerald posted his as #151, I will emerge from the silence and announce that I have started #140152! Receiving Wing and Emp tomorrow. The Nine tail tentatively looks sold when the builder can get out here.
Very excited, it's been a choppy ride getting here. A personal crisis now resolved, unfortunately lost some money to someone here on VAF (nameless for now) but now solidly on firm ground. Something everyone may be interested in, I ordered the Wing and Emp and they had the Wing in stock. My assumption is either sales slowed down, or perhaps someone had just pulled out of an order and it was just lucky timing on my part. Started an online builders log with not much in there for now. I probably will keep going with blogspot assuming I can figure out a good way to keep everything backed up as well locally. http://vans14a.blogspot.com |
Welcome to VAF Gerald and happy building.
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Welcome Gerald and JD, be sure to get a builders log going with lots of pics, here on this site or elsewhere. Put the link in your signature.:)
Tom |
Gerald, welcome and have fun with the build.
Jeff, good to meet you via email the other day. Enjoy the build. |
Number 140143
Ordered the tail and wing kits in mid Feb and received them March 13th. Right now in the process of inventorying the kits and setting up my work area. Looking forward to starting assembly. This is a retirement project (retiring next month).
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Serial Number 140159
Ordered my RV-14A tail kit Monday March 31 and received it Friday April 1. Ordered a few tools for the Vans practice kit and tool box. need to setup shop.
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Just received my RV 14 empennage kit today! Kit number 148. I have been waiting since high school; which was a long time ago, to build my airplane. I'm hoping to talk and meet other builders in michigan. I'm so excited and scared at the same time. Big thanks to Doug and all of you for having such a great site.
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Welcome aboard Hal, just take it one step at a time and relax. That's what we did, AH maybe we did not relax.
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#25483, gonna be a -6, fuselage kit on the way.
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Empennage is inbound
My empennage should arrive 4/24/14. Maybe I'll get 140150? ABF is delivering it. I might ask for the day off! My shipping cost was estimated at 255.00 to greensboro NC.
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Carl-
In my case bot the empennage and the the wing kit ended up at a local distribution center before coming to the house. I got a call from them about delivery times. The empennage kit did not come on the day it was supposed to arrive. I had to call and found out that they will schedule the delivery in anticipation of the crate arriving at their warehouse. In my case there was a delay. I would call and make sure the time it will be delivered and make sure that they give the driver your cell number. Have him call an hour before so you know that they are actually showing up. I had two other people with me to help unload. The drive helped as as well, but I would not count on that to happen. cheers ken |
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Just finished doing the inventory on my Tail kit. Getting ready to get started on my very first airplane build. Serial Number 154.
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Have fun and welcome to VAF. You will love the process.
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140170 here. Tail and wing should ship next week.
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It's been a fun build so far ... Welcome to the "14" club.
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140028. Ready for the fuselage kit. Very frustrating.
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Hello, my s/n is 140169:)
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Welcome to the group!
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140173 Joining
Ordered tail and wing kits but they are still processing so no ship date yet.
That's good because I need to order tool set and build some EAA 1000 benches. |
Congratulations!
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Welcome to VAF, you'll find it quite useful.
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Ok lets sum this up. First Subkit serial number was released fall of 2012. Now we see Serial Number 173. With big sales push at OSH 2014 we could see 200 by the fall 2014. 100 new serial numbers per year pretty good stats so far.:D For perspective the RV12 was released in April 2008 at Sun&Fun. Now we are at serial numbers around 850 with about 350 flying.:eek: I have reviewed my crystal ball and predict first RV14 will fly in 2016.:cool:
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2016, ah NO!
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140173 Shortfused
Well both kits were in stock so they shipped Tuesday due in Orlando on Tues 29. Yahooo... cept I am going to be a**and elbows tomorrow and Saturday and maybe farther getting my garage in shape and EAA 1000 bench built to handle it. Plan is to inventory wing kit and reclose and store and open tail and let er rip... as soon as my Avery kit arrives.
Still nervous. Anyone got a picture of an elephant with a bit out of it's butt for me to hang up and remember this is one bite at a time. |
You picked the right kit for a first time builder. The instructions are very clear and specific.
I got the wing and aft fuse kits a few weeks ago and I started with the wings. I am having a blast and am amazed at how fast it is going together compared to other kits I have helped build. I followed the suggestions of several other builders and made my EAA benches 6 feet long instead of five, and also adjusted the size of the frame to leave a 2" overhang all around the top for clamping parts. Instead of plywood tops I used 3/4" MDF since it is smooth and much flatter than 3/4" plywood. Disregard the parts list for the tables, you will not need molding and multiple size screws. You will need a huge box of #9 or #10 x 2 1/2" deck screws and some good wood glue. I made 4 tables so I could build both wings at the same time and it is working well. |
Thanks Mike H. Built benches this weekend with 2 inch lips all around. Space in garage kept me to 5 footers. If I move some work to KCOI I will make a set of 6 footers. Avery toolkit came Tuesday. Tail and Wing tomorrow. What have I bit off!!!?? Next newbie question.
How long can I expect to spend inventorying a wing kit and a tail kit. I plan to do wing first and close up for storage and then open tail,inventory and build. I will have another engineer helping. |
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Newbie here. I just ordered my first kit :):). The RV-14A Empennage/Tailcone Kit. My S/N is 140175. Shipped Out today 8-01-14.
Everyone get ready for me to start asking a bunch of questions. I already have a ton of questions but I will wait to ask until I get my kit in and study on the drawings. |
Welcome to the -14 club.
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Its great to finally be here. A dream come true at less for now. I just hope it doesn't turn into a nightmare.
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No worries on that. Since I was told that inventory is a few hours I hope to inventory wing and close and store this weekend and then hop all over tail to start build with first rivet ( shall we have a ceremony and champagne) sometime next week, all well within the 30 days. I was happy to see the 30 when I read it.
Excited to see the plans etc on CD for $10. I'll be ordering that as soon as I am done here at the VAF. |
Serial 140174
Got the empenage last night, first time builder, waiting on tools and practice kit, girlfriend said she will help me build it. It will be fun !!
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