In case anyone is curious on number of 9s sold....

[sbal0906]

In the -12 thread they were talking about numbers sold, so in case anyone's curious, the -9 empennage I received last week made me customer #92012.

Cheers,

[bruceh]

I'm 91894 and that was around Aug. 2009.

2012 will be an easy number to remember.

[SmittysRV]

My builder number is 91240 from 8/1/2005. That's 772 tail kits since that date, or 64 months, divided into 772 kits, is an average of 12 tail kits per months sold. Pretty impressive.

[Fearless]

I wonder how many finishing kits have been sold. That will be a better indicator how many to expect in the air at some point. My number is 90696 and I was the third person who acquired that particular empennage kit number. The first person sold the empennage kit. The second person did the empennage and started on the wings. I acquired the kit and bought an unstarted empennage kit from someone in the state to gain experience before continuing and have made it to the finishing stages. I'm just hoping by the time I'm finished I will actually be able to afford to fly it. At times I'm not so sure.

[Joerpilot]

My 9 kit is 90602 finished in 2007.

[sbal0906]

Originally Posted by bruceh

I'm 91894 and that was around Aug. 2009.

2012 will be an easy number to remember.

I hadn't thought of that. It would be neat to target next year as a completion date but that's not going to happen!

[sbal0906]

Originally Posted by Fearless

I wonder how many finishing kits have been sold. That will be a better indicator how many to expect in the air at some point. My number is 90696 and I was the third person who acquired that particular empennage kit number. The first person sold the empennage kit. The second person did the empennage and started on the wings. I acquired the kit and bought an unstarted empennage kit from someone in the state to gain experience before continuing and have made it to the finishing stages. I'm just hoping by the time I'm finished I will actually be able to afford to fly it. At times I'm not so sure.

Good point. According to Van's website, there are 657 9/9As flying which is about 33% counting mine, assuming everyone who is flying has reported in.

[rv9aviator]

My kit number is 90919 started in Feb 2002. Will fly spring of this year 2011.

[bsacks05]

My builder number is 90438....I can't seem to forget that number even though I rarely use it anymore. Must be from 5 years of placing orders with VANS.

[gmpaul]

My number is 91256, makes me grin every time I come across it. I swore up and down that I would never do that again. Now I find myself looking up performance numbers on other RV?s (must be going crazy). I love the way that birdie handles (9SV).