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Old 03-06-2019, 02:34 PM
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I started shopping for a flying 8 starting in 2011. I looked at about 20 of them over the next two years ranging in price from $35K to $140K. I finally found an exceptionally well built beauty in 2013 and paid $100K for it. It had been flying for a year and had 100 hours on it when I bought it.

I still own it, love it, and have no regrets. It's day VFR with steam gauges and a Lycoming O-360, and it's the funnest airplane I've ever flown. Since buying it I've only seen a handful of 8s that I think are as nice or nicer. I was willing to step up in price to get as perfect a specimen as I could because I knew I was going to keep it for many years.
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Old 03-10-2019, 10:32 AM
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Default Price Quote.........

I was looking for the Vans price calculator and stumble onto this page. Evidently, if you live in South Africa, you can have a plane custom built for you.

https://www.rvaircraft.co.za/rv-airc...ng-calculator/
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Old 03-10-2019, 11:04 AM
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That was cool. I clicked on what I have in my RV-8 and came up with a price of $137,299 so I guess I made a good purchase when I bought mine built and saved almost $40k.
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Old 03-10-2019, 12:40 PM
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I haven’t been able to find the cost estimator on the new Van’s site. Could be operator error.

Anybody else having this problem?

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Old 03-10-2019, 12:48 PM
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Not on Van's new website but I haven't been able to find a lot of things I knew where they were on the old website.

I just followed that link in the previous comment to get an idea about mine.
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Old 03-10-2019, 01:44 PM
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I finished my first RV-8A for $36K in 2002. Standard kits, 1800hr O320-E3D, Sterba wood prop, basic VFR panel with handheld radio and GPS, homemade interior, and no paint. At the time Vans told me it was the lightest -8A ever built at 996lbs.
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Old 04-06-2019, 08:14 AM
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Very new to experimental aircraft and have been looking at some RV-8s online. I see a price range starting around 60 and well over 100. Im just wondering what an average RV8 sells for with basic vfr panel and io-360. I know there can be many varibles, just wanted a better understanding of price. Ive also thought about building one in the future and figured with a QB kit and a used engine it would be in the 50ish range. Any info/insigh is appreciated!!
Today's kits are more evolved than earlier kits, some didn't even have the pre-punched holes, although that's always been standard for QB kits. So if you get a used kit, say 15 years old, it would be important to note what you would be getting with it, compared to today's kits.

Van's pricing has pretty much went up every year, some builders could do this 10-20+ years ago, going very basic instrumentation, a used engine and prop. It doesn't seem very realistic today, at least I haven't found any deals on used kits, and they rarely come up, anyhow.

Since there are so few kits for sale, I've looked at Van's QB kits. Realize that their prices on QB kits still do not include the finishing kit, that is a separate deal altogether. Then you've got shipping, along with many states now collecting on the sales tax. So you're pretty much at 48-49 before purchase of a single tool and shop space, engine, prop, instruments, wiring, paint, interior, and lots of shipping charges for this and that along the way.
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Old 04-06-2019, 09:53 AM
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What is the 8's wingspan? Going to Van's own site, I see two different figures. On the total performance specs and performance page when you download the brochure, 23' listed.

But they also give the 24' figure here. Can someone explain the discrepancy?

Have been taking a renewed interest in 8's lately, but hangar at the valley is very limited, just barely get my six in there along with another plane, so hoping wingspan is still 23'.
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Old 04-06-2019, 11:42 AM
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What is the 8's wingspan? Going to Van's own site, I see two different figures. On the total performance specs and performance page when you download the brochure, 23' listed.

But they also give the 24' figure here. Can someone explain the discrepancy?

Have been taking a renewed interest in 8's lately, but hangar at the valley is very limited, just barely get my six in there along with another plane, so hoping wingspan is still 23'.
The early -8 kits were originally equipped with Hoerner style wingtips. The later kits have sheared wingtips . The Hoerner tips are a bit narrower than the sheared tips so the different wingspan figures may reflect this. The sheared tips are 18 inches wide a the trailing edge.

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Old 04-07-2019, 09:34 AM
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Appreciate it.
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