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I am considering a RV3 built in 1984. It is being represented as being built w/ "double shear rear spar, a double spar bulkhead, a .32 ( do they mean .032") root rib and the straight carry-through". It has the conventional front fuel tank modified to 22 gallons along w/ a "fuel tank straddle mod".
So there are a lot of things going here. I was looking at VAN's Service Bulletin SB 96-3-1 dated 3/25/96 regarding the spar mod. I'm finding it strange that this airplane was built some 12 years before the mod came out but yet identifying a problem early on? The logs and paperwork are with the A/C and I may have missed something when I looked at them last week. Is there a way to visually verify these mods and that they were done properly? Done during the build or done later??
Lastly, without question I will get some professional eyeballs on the plane and it's documents before going much further, just trying to get my arms around the sequence of events, etc.
Thanks,
I am considering a RV3 built in 1984. It is being represented as being built w/ "double shear rear spar, a double spar bulkhead, a .32 ( do they mean .032") root rib and the straight carry-through". It has the conventional front fuel tank modified to 22 gallons along w/ a "fuel tank straddle mod".
So there are a lot of things going here. I was looking at VAN's Service Bulletin SB 96-3-1 dated 3/25/96 regarding the spar mod. I'm finding it strange that this airplane was built some 12 years before the mod came out but yet identifying a problem early on? The logs and paperwork are with the A/C and I may have missed something when I looked at them last week. Is there a way to visually verify these mods and that they were done properly? Done during the build or done later??
Lastly, without question I will get some professional eyeballs on the plane and it's documents before going much further, just trying to get my arms around the sequence of events, etc.
Thanks,