RV's by country

[java]

482 Registered in Canada under the common name "Van's", so about the same as Australia.

[Ralph Inkster]

Data fields aren't too consistant in Transport Canada's web search... I figured we had more so searched some alternate possible model names & got the total up to 394 & know there are more RVs still because for one Transport didn't list a single RV-8A... I've flown one! My quick results
RV-3 - 19
RV-4 - 76
RV-6&A - 128
RV-7&A - 60
RV-8 - 25 plus the 8As out there somewhere
RV-9&A - 68
RV-10 - 17
RV-12 - 1 !!!
Also a number of builders chose to call their planes other than the Vans model #, example 'Foll-6' so is impossible to know the true number of RVs in the Great White North!

[Ralph Inkster]

See number increasing even as I type!

[DHRYCAUK]

With a little creativity with the search engine on the transport canada website I got the following for Canada

RV-3 - 19
RV-4 - 71
RV-6 - 92
RV-6A - 71
RV-7 35
RV-7A - 56
RV-8 - 43
RV-8A - 5
RV-9 - 6
RV-9A - 56
RV-10 - 24
RV-12 - 1
RV-14 - 0

Total - 479

[prkaye]

Interesting to see the RV-6 has the highest number by a fairly significant margin!

[flyvans.com]

dug up a few figures for Switzerland:

18 active RV's on the swiss register, trend is pointing upwards :-)

Breakdown by model (flying / under construction):
RV-12: 2 / 4
RV-10: 2 / 4
RV-9A: 0 / 0
RV-9: 0 / 0
RV-8A: 0 / 0
RV-8: 3 / 6
RV-7A: 3 / 6
RV-7: 2 / 6
RV-6A: 2 / 0
RV-6: 1 / 0
RV-4: 3 / 2
RV-3: 0 / 0

about 8 million population.
1462 light airplanes (MTOM < 2.2t).
approx 8700 fixed wing pilots (PPL + CPL + ATPL, without HEL)

1 RV per 444'444 inhabitants. ;-) (long ways to go, factor ten, to get near U.S. or australian levels!)
1 RV per 480 pilots
1.25% of small planes are RVs.

we're trailing a bit, i suppose ;-)

to look beyond RVs:
about 6 pilots per light airplane, although a significant portion of airline pilots (2200) likely do not participate in recreational flying.
1 light airplane per 5470 inhabitants.
230 experimentals, by definition in the < 2.2t category, apprx. 16% of light airplanes.

[rgmwa]

Looked up our friendly neighbours over in New Zealand just out of curiosity: 62 RV's (plus a few Rockets), population just over 4.5 million (it would be higher except that all the others are here ), so about 1 RV per 72,000. Pretty respectable numbers for a small country surrounded by water.

[Warbo]

I think what would be interesting would be to compile a list of all the countries that have an RV on the register. Has this ever been done? I wonder how many really out of the way places have an RV flying.

[pgroell]

In France, 55 RV's on the national registry (10 RV4, 11 RV6/6A, 15 RV7/7A, 13 RV8/8A and 6 RV9A).
There are around 70 RV's still being built.

[RV10inOz]

And the Vans hobbs meter is only as accurate as the number who bother to tell them they are flying.

It is likely to be a LOT more. You would need to add up the registers of all the likely countries.

About 500 here and it seems like another 500 in the build phase?.lotta kist have come down here in the last few years.