RV-6A
Tip-up canopy
Single stage (no clear coat) polyurethane paint (added just over 12 lbs to empty weight)
RV-8 vertical stab and rudder
RV-7 style elevators (slightly lighter counterweights)
L & R steps
Comfortable seats from DJ at Cleveland, but no heavy leather or lofts of other interior panels / add-ons.
Single screen EFIS (AFS 5600) w 2 axis autopilot, single Dynon COM, xponder, ADSB in/out, and 3 back-up steam gauges
Old school Whelen strobes / nav. lights
Dual, Fly-LED triple beam landing lights
O-360 and Sensenich fixed pitch
Odyssey 680 battery mounted on fwd side of firewall
1067 lbs
Probably starting to sound like an echo..... the lighter they are the better they fly.
I feel mine is a good compromise between being extremely stripped down and basic, vs heavily (did you see what I did there
) equipped with extras.
One problem with asking people about empty weight is that a lot of them are wrong.
Not on purpose, but because of how the weighing was done, what scales (accuracy?) were used, or how the scales were used.
I have run across a lot of RV's that I new the weight was wrong. After doing a re-weigh, a lot of them were found to be heavier, even though the owner / builder was convinced it was done correctly the first time