page_title: Van's Aircraft
section_title: RV aircraft series
hierarchical_section_title: Van's Aircraft / RV aircraft series
caption_attribution_description: English: Formation flight of Van's Aircraft
context_page_description: Van's Aircraft, Inc. is an American kit aircraft manufacturer, founded by Richard "Van" VanGrunsven in 1973.
  Van's RV series of aircraft, from the single-seat RV-3 to the latest RV-14, are all-aluminum, low-wing monoplanes of monocoque construction. The RV series of airplanes has been extremely successful, and as of November 2019, about 10,600 RV kits had been completed and flown, and thousands more are under construction. Completion rates currently average about 1.5 per day, making the series the most numerous of all homebuilt aircraft. They feature responsive controls plus good speed and fuel economy. In 2013, the company announced it would begin selling assembled RV-12 model aircraft as well on a limited basis.
  In December 2017 the company reported that its 10,000th aircraft had flown, an RV-7 built in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
  The Van's Aircraft factory is located at Aurora State Airport, Oregon.
context_section_description: RV-1: single example of a modified Stits SA-3 Playboy built by VanGrunsven in 1965 and modified with a 125 hp (93 kW) Lycoming engine, larger tail, modified cowling, modified fuselage and a custom metal wing
  RV-2: wooden flying-wing sailplane prototype that was never completed
  RV-3: single-seat kit aircraft, aerobatic, debuted in 1972; genesis design for rest of the RV series
  RV-4: two-seat kit aircraft, tandem seating, aerobatic, bubble canopy
  RV-5: single example of a small metal single-seat aircraft that was originally flown with a half-Volkswagen engine and then with a two-stroke Rotax 447 engine (being restored)
  RV-6: two-seat, side-by-side seating aircraft, aerobatic; the most-built model of the RV series
  RV-7: modernized kit with similarity to the RV-6, with longer wingspan and larger rudder, aerobatic; replaced the RV-6 model
  RV-8: two-seat tandem seating, aerobatic aircraft, with larger cockpit and greater overall size than the RV-4
  RV-9: two seat, side-by-side aircraft; non-aerobatic, with larger wing and more docile handling qualities than others in the RV line
  RV-10: largest of the RV fleet with four seats, non-aerobatic, tricycle landing gear only
  RV-11: single-seat motorglider; under development
  RV-12: two-seat, side-by-side light-sport aircraft, updated to RV-12iS variant in 2017
  RV-13: designation not used
  RV-14: two-seat, side-by-side aerobatic aircraft, considered similar to the RV-7 in design but larger and roomier
caption: Formation flight of 40 Van's Aircraft
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