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02-02-2011, 04:36 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Huskerland, USA
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While numbers and statistics are interesting and compelling, the RV-12 is a fantastic airplane to fly! Easy to build, easy to land, exceptional visibility, nimble and light on the controls, frugal on fuel, well equipped with plenty of options, and quite speedy for an LSA. It is all RV for sure!
Congrats to Vans for hitting the nail on the head.
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RV-10 : In the hangar
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RV-44 : 4 place helicopter on order.
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02-12-2011, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 70
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Wow, 500 RV-12 kits selling is an **increadible** success! Dan Johnson's web site has a posting with the number of SLSA planes registered since 2004. At 125 flying RV-12s, it is ranked 6th place if it was a SLAS. Another 199 flying would put it at the top of the list. And from the post above the 12 wasn't available until 2008 ... just fantastic.
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02-12-2011, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: central oregon
Posts: 1,089
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Welcome to VAF Thomas!
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nothing special here...
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02-13-2011, 05:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Near Scipio, in Southern Indiana
Posts: 1,779
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I thought our 9A was fairly simple to build, but the 12 is really a big step in bringing the building process to a new level. I just realized that we have a "factory" where none of the workers, or even the low- and mid-level supervisors, have a high school education! Hint: You will be seeing more of this. mykitlog.com/bobkelly This is kit 120467, BTW.
Bob
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02-13-2011, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 70
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny7
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Thanks! 
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02-14-2011, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Lewistown
Posts: 161
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been down this road
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Originally Posted by E. D. Eliot
Now that one of the two major certified general aircraft manufacturers if no longer importing finished airplanes from the Chec (sp?) Republic or wherever, I wonder if they are talking to Van's about producing RV-12 as finished SLSA?
American jobs maybe???
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[Text here that was promotional in nature was removed by the owner of the forums. Non advertisers cannot use the forums as a promotional tool (rule #5 at: http://www.vansairforce.net/rules.htm). Answering a specific, technical question that can be verified with a source is of course allowed - and encouraged! ]
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02-14-2011, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL
Posts: 27
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By members of our EAA Chapter 108 based in Crestview FL, there is one RV-12 completed and flying and three under construction. The one flying is in DeFuniak Springs, one being built in Baker, the other two in Shalimar and Fort Walton Beach.
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04-27-2013, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: St. Charles, IL
Posts: 1
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750th!
For anyone still keeping score on the popularity of the RV-12, I have it on good authority that Vans has now reached 750 kit starts.
I know this because my empennage kit arrived yesterday. Wish me luck. :-)
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04-27-2013, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 2,820
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You made a good choice, Clint. It's my fourth homebuilt, and the first three don't hold a candle to it.
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