Hi,
I recently purchased a 'nearly complete' RV6A kit from a fellow builder who unfortunately passed away prior to its completion.
I'm going over the work he's done to come up with a list of things I need to check over / complete, and stumbled across this issue in the tail...
If I'm reading the plans right, this is PN HS-610, HS-614 and HS-602 spar, and they should be attached all the way across with AN470AD4-5 and -7 rivets, but for some reason the outboard rivets were left out.
It appears that during the attachment phase some rivets were left out, or they were drilled in the wrong spot.
See pictures:
https://imgur.com/a/2YHdvFH
Close ups of holes:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/F1hWMJ1F87cuuPfL8
Any thoughts on how to fix? The plane has passed all inspections save for the final inspection (Canada, MD-RA), so the inspector either didn't see this or didn't care.
I'm not planning on completing the spar AD per Van's recommendation, but it would seem to me that something should be done here.
Thanks!
Nick
I recently purchased a 'nearly complete' RV6A kit from a fellow builder who unfortunately passed away prior to its completion.
I'm going over the work he's done to come up with a list of things I need to check over / complete, and stumbled across this issue in the tail...
If I'm reading the plans right, this is PN HS-610, HS-614 and HS-602 spar, and they should be attached all the way across with AN470AD4-5 and -7 rivets, but for some reason the outboard rivets were left out.
It appears that during the attachment phase some rivets were left out, or they were drilled in the wrong spot.
See pictures:
https://imgur.com/a/2YHdvFH
Close ups of holes:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/F1hWMJ1F87cuuPfL8
Any thoughts on how to fix? The plane has passed all inspections save for the final inspection (Canada, MD-RA), so the inspector either didn't see this or didn't care.
I'm not planning on completing the spar AD per Van's recommendation, but it would seem to me that something should be done here.
Thanks!
Nick
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