Can you identify this wingtip lens?

[DeltaRomeo]

Can somebody help me identify the maker of this plexi lens? It's on a circa 2010 8A (non-batwing) and we believe the lens was heated to make the Whelen bulb fit. There is a desire by the new owner to relocate the strobe aft a bit and replace the lens with one whose shape hasn't been modified.

Looking for a set.

I couldn't remember if this was the standard Van's lens (it's not a 90* angle), so asking here. Pics...








Thanks in advance if you have any ideas,
dr

[Paul from Flyleds]

Van's made two mod kits for the W415 wingtip:
The first was made using aluminium pieces and the faces were at 90 degrees to each other.
The second, which this one looks like, was a fibreglass insert with ~120 degree faces.

Van's have discontinued both styles and won't make any more lenses. I've asked them a few times because I still get customers asking me for them as well...

[Kyle Boatright]

Paul is right. That's Van's product with a fiberglass insert you had to cut into the tip. Those are on my airplane.

[DeltaRomeo]

Well now we know. Thank you. I figured somebody with the same style would recognize it. If anyone has (2) lens kits they are parting out, please let me know.

v/r,dr

[Kyle Boatright]

I'm surprised Vans won't point customers to the vendor which made these... Heck, I bet they could sell 25 sets to people like me who have 15-20 year old lenses that are beginning to look shopworn.

[rvbuilder2002]

Originally Posted by Kyle Boatright

I'm surprised Vans won't point customers to the vendor which made these... Heck, I bet they could sell 25 sets to people like me who have 15-20 year old lenses that are beginning to look shopworn.

I'm pretty sure they were an after market part that got sold through Van's and the maker quit making them a long time ago.

[ed. Thank you Scott. I suspected that might be the case. v/r,dr]

[DeltaTango]

This is the wing tip kit that Vans sold.

I too wish that I could get my hands a replacement set of lens.

[n82rb]

Those look like the ones that were made and sold by chief aircraft parts. I had a set on my rv4. I cracked one, I talked to the owner at chief and he said the molds do not exist any more so he could not make any more.

Bob

[donagin]

If anyone has a set of old lenses that are crazed or hazy, they could be used as a mold to vacuum form several sets. I'd be interested in trying - but someone has to have originals for me to get the dimensions right.

[RVDan]

I?d love to get a set of these also.