Timinfla2
Active Member
Hi folks,
My name is Tim and I wanted to introduce myself.
Building and flying an RV has been a dream of mine ever since I got my PPL back in 2006. Well I'm happy to say that only a short 17 years since, I am about to make my dream come true.
I am not sure how the stars aligned so well but an aviation idol of mine who I have befriended at my local airport let me know about an RV10 kit that was soon to be coming up for sale.
The fuselage is darned near complete - the previous builder was just about to start rigging when he was called away. This was over 2 years ago and it has sat since. The wings are assembled awaiting the bottom skins. The fuel tanks have passed the pressure check - at least they did a little over 2 years ago. I'm hoping nothing has changed.
I'll be honest, this project is daunting. I am afraid I won't be up to the task, but thankfully I have some amazing friends who have built airplanes before who are very eager to show me the way if/when I get stuck.
I'm so grateful to the seller for working with me because he had several other interested parties (probably with deeper pockets) but for whatever reason, he chose to work with me and allow me the chance to fulfill an almost two-decades old dream.
I still need to order the finishing kit which (unfortunately) seems to be taking about 18 months to fulfill at the moment, but at least that will give me time to finish what I have and hopefully do some planning for the future. I am not even sure how to order the kit - I guess I'll go to the Van's website and poke around . Or heck who knows, maybe I'll find an orphaned finishing kit for sale somewhere. Stranger things have happened...
If anybody is out in my neck of the woods feel free to come by and give a holler, it'd be great to meet you.
If anybody has any tips for a build at this stage in the process of things they wish they could have done different, I'd love to hear it. Thanks to you all for the tons of data and info you've provided as I did my research.
My name is Tim and I wanted to introduce myself.
Building and flying an RV has been a dream of mine ever since I got my PPL back in 2006. Well I'm happy to say that only a short 17 years since, I am about to make my dream come true.
I am not sure how the stars aligned so well but an aviation idol of mine who I have befriended at my local airport let me know about an RV10 kit that was soon to be coming up for sale.
The fuselage is darned near complete - the previous builder was just about to start rigging when he was called away. This was over 2 years ago and it has sat since. The wings are assembled awaiting the bottom skins. The fuel tanks have passed the pressure check - at least they did a little over 2 years ago. I'm hoping nothing has changed.
I'll be honest, this project is daunting. I am afraid I won't be up to the task, but thankfully I have some amazing friends who have built airplanes before who are very eager to show me the way if/when I get stuck.
I'm so grateful to the seller for working with me because he had several other interested parties (probably with deeper pockets) but for whatever reason, he chose to work with me and allow me the chance to fulfill an almost two-decades old dream.
I still need to order the finishing kit which (unfortunately) seems to be taking about 18 months to fulfill at the moment, but at least that will give me time to finish what I have and hopefully do some planning for the future. I am not even sure how to order the kit - I guess I'll go to the Van's website and poke around . Or heck who knows, maybe I'll find an orphaned finishing kit for sale somewhere. Stranger things have happened...
If anybody is out in my neck of the woods feel free to come by and give a holler, it'd be great to meet you.
If anybody has any tips for a build at this stage in the process of things they wish they could have done different, I'd love to hear it. Thanks to you all for the tons of data and info you've provided as I did my research.