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Old 01-17-2012, 07:58 PM
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80065 was my first RV8 build, 98/99, it is currently owned by the President of Vintage Wings in Quebec Canada, used regularly and often serves duty as chase/support plane for their warbirds.
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Old 01-18-2012, 05:48 AM
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My plane started out as Builder Number 80114. I purchased the tail and wings from another builder, and went to my builder number 82780 when I finished it in April of 2010.
Aww, our planes are almost brothers. Smokey's number is 80113.

Does anyone remember who finished Phil Arter's plane, 80005? It was posted once, a few years ago, and I recall that I recognized the name.
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Old 01-18-2012, 09:54 AM
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Default Kit number vs complete date?

80434 Slow build kit
Drilled first hole: Sept 22, 1997
First Flight: July 12, 2000

Actual build time 2 years 7 month. The difference was waiting for parts.
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Old 01-18-2012, 10:17 AM
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Looking for LOW numbers, Danny, not HIGH.

Go back to your nap.
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Old 06-25-2013, 01:40 PM
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Default Kit # Vs Completion date?!!!

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80434 Slow build kit
Drilled first hole: Sept 22, 1997
First Flight: July 12, 2000

Actual build time 2 years 7 month. The difference was waiting for parts.
I'm builder#80566. I know its not a "low" number. But, I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with one of the longest build times.

I put my build on hold when I ran into trouble with my transition from career military to career civilian. After 9/11, it was again put on hold because I was laid off from my avionics job.

My tail kit has spent the last 15 years sitting on the shelf as motivation to get myself through a career change, get 2 kids through college, and get a nice house the wife likes and that has space for a workshop.

I'm finally down to the last task before getting to work on that airplane. Since my "shop" is the back half of our large 4-car garage, I had to promise the wife I'd make nice shop cabinets to keep everything organized. And, I have to make her some shelving along the front half of the garage to store all of her Costco treasure.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:55 PM
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80041, 9/25/2003

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Old 06-25-2013, 05:45 PM
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I can tell you that Jerry Van. has #88 in his stable and I have #888, but I do not know whom has #8. I have often thought it would be nice to know.
Yours as always R.E.A. III # 80888
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Old 06-25-2013, 10:29 PM
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I believe Phil Arter's plane was eventually finished by Joel Harding of Larkspur, CO.

Joel Harding, Phil Arter, Greg Puckett, and I ordered our kits on the first day. I had kit #80033 and i think i was the highest number in the group. I ended up selling it to Fred Hollendorfer in the Denver area. I'm pretty sure he ended up finishing an 8, but I'm not sure if he used my original builder's number in the end.

That was all a very long time ago!

Anybody remember Bob Skinner, Dean Hall, Fred Stucklen (I know he's still around)?

Joel Harding and I drove out to the first Burlington fly-in together. We shared a room and Joel was ticked with me for snoring so loudly that I kept him up all night. In reality, I didn't get much sleep, either, because he was smacking me with a pillow every 30 minutes. Good times.

Bob Nuckolls was a featured speaker at that event. The Orndorffs were there and John Stewart was showing off his first masterpiece--an RV6 if I remember correctly. It was a pretty advanced machine because it had an autopilot and a full VM1000 setup. I won a set of dimple dies from Avery for being the youngest builder in attendance. I think I would have been 28 or 29 at the time.

Sorry for rambling on... Thinking of the first RV-8 kits just brings back a flood of memories for me.
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Old 06-26-2013, 12:24 AM
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Default 80009?

A friend of mine looked at a Sport Cub for sale in Independence, Oregon this past week, and it shared a hangar with a very early RV-8, he thought it was #9?
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Old 06-26-2013, 03:52 AM
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It's nice to mentioned in such lofty circles and while not in the lower number category I did purchase my empennage kit in '97. My kit number is 80467 not 80033 ( that is my zip code though sorry Ron) and was purchased directly from from Van's. As I recall Phil Arter built my fuselage jig and was passed on to Joel Harding who passed it to me. It then went to Lloyd Remus in Colorado Springs where it may have built several other RV8s. Joel and I helped each other on our wings and spent many hours visiting and lucky for me we're still good friends. My -8 finally flew in May of 2010. Not the longest build time (12 1/2 yrs) but certainly long enough
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