Smitty's RV-9A - Experimental Aircraft from Van's Aircraft The RV-9A from Van's Aircraft Sunday, July 27, 2008 -
Howdeeeeee! I'm building an RV-9A from Van's Aircraft. Take your shoes off and sit a spell. Give me a holler if ya' got questions or ya' just wanna chew the fat about RV's.
 
Howdy Ya'll!
Howdy! I building an RV-9A! I'm an aviation nut and am excited about building my RV-9A from Van's Aircraft. Have a look around!
Do what yer' Momma said...
Go Play!
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   and Longerons
(17:30)

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Color your own airplane! (in your spare time, arr arr)
I have been thinking about what my RV-9A will look like after I finish building it, so I created these drawings to play around with different color schemes to see what I could come up with. Just click on the drawings to see the full size drawings. Then you can "right click" on the drawings that come up and select "Save Picture As" to save them to your computer. You can also just "right click" on the small photos on this page and select "Save Target As" to save the drawings on your computer.

This Drawing can be used for either the RV-7A or the RV-9A side view. There just isn't that much difference.
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RV-9A top view.
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RV-7A top view.
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This website was built to document my work on my RV-9A in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build an RV-9A or any other aircraft.
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