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11-09-2011, 11:23 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: BC Canada
Posts: 216
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RV-6 serial number 1
RV6 serial number 1 at the Evergreen Aviation museum. Nice! 
Notice the "Goose" in the background Got 0.2hrs at the controls...
Then on to Van's for a demo flight in N137RV. Bought a 7A QB project this week. The fun continues...
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Mike
RV-6 emp, done-sold,
RV7A QB. Passed pre-cover and sold!
Disclaimer: Everything I say can be presumed to be wrong. Don't try this at home. 
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11-10-2011, 12:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bristol, UK.
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I'm surprised it's a slider...
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Ed.
RV-3B G-CCTG - Purchased May 2020
RV-8 G-MIRV - First flight 1 July 2019
RV-6 G-BZRV - Flown the nest.
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11-10-2011, 06:51 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,762
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Slider didn't become available until around 1992.
If I remember correctly, Alan Tolle built the first "customer built" -6. It was white/blue.
Completed in 1989, the year I started building mine.
Serial number 1 is listed as N66RV, built by Richard/Diane Vangrunsven in 1988. It originally had a tip-up canopy and updraft cooling. It was affectionately known as "Old Blue".
Registration expired in June of this year.
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
Last edited by Mel : 11-10-2011 at 07:28 AM.
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11-10-2011, 07:08 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,926
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Looks like pressure recovery wheel pants, too.
It's likely that if this is indeed SN 1, that the slider and PR pants were tested on it before they went to production.
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Rob Prior
1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
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11-10-2011, 07:22 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Posts: 2,967
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Hmmm...if that is serial number one, I wonder if it's mobile, or flyable? Love to see it brought to AirVenture next summer!
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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11-10-2011, 07:30 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,762
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cjensen
Hmmm...if that is serial number one, I wonder if it's mobile, or flyable? Love to see it brought to AirVenture next summer!
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See my previous post. Registration expired in June of this year.
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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11-10-2011, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Posts: 2,967
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mel
See my previous post. Registration expired in June of this year.
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AH! You edited since I read it the first time! 
Still...museums move airplanes all the time without flying them. 
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Chad Jensen
Astronics AES, Vertical Power
RV-7, 5 yr build, flew it 68 hours, sold it, miss it.
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11-10-2011, 07:49 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,686
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Here's #2 RV-6
Jim Baldwin. He hangars at the same field as me. You won't meet a nicer , more helpful guy!!!
Sorry I don't have a bigger picture.
Jim won the Bingelis Award in 2010.
I was lucky enough to get to fly #2 before I few my -8 and it flies great!! |
11-10-2011, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: 57AZ - NW Tucson area
Posts: 10,011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mel
Slider didn't become available until around 1992.
If I remember correctly, Alan Tolle built the first "customer built" -6. It was white/blue.
Completed in 1989, the year I started building mine.
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I think Alan Tolle's second -6 (also two tone blue and white) in 1991 was the slider prototype, maybe also the first customer -6A?
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Gil Alexander
EAA Technical Counselor, Airframe Mechanic
Half completed RV-10 QB purchased
RV-6A N61GX - finally flying
Grumman Tiger N12GA - flying
La Cholla Airpark (57AZ) Tucson AZ
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11-10-2011, 08:42 AM
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VAF Moderator / Line Boy
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
Posts: 12,247
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OK, so the aircraft resulting from kit #4 is sitting in our hangar....where's #3?
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Paul F. Dye
Editor at Large - KITPLANES Magazine
RV-8 - N188PD - "Valkyrie"
RV-6 (By Marriage) - N164MS - "Mikey"
RV-3B - N13PL - "Tsamsiyu"
A&P, EAA Tech Counselor/Flight Advisor
Dayton Valley Airpark (A34)
http://Ironflight.com
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