Van's back-country RV-15 prototype is its first high-wing design. It's seen here lifting off on an ...More early test flight. Bernardo Malfitano/Van's Aircraft. For nearly 50 years, Van’s ...

Let’s get this straight from the beginning: The Van’s Aircraft RV-14A is not an off-the-shelf airplane. Every one of them out in the wild is custom-built.

A Van’s Aircraft RV-12iS SLSA is the perfect way for a rusty pilot to bring back stick-and-rudder skills. (Photo: Dan Pimentel) I have been a certificated private pilot since 1996, and in 2008 ...

The RV-10, Van's first four-seat Aircraft, expanded the RV series into family and group flying. Introduced in 2003, it offers a spacious cabin and impressive performance, cruising at just under ...

He proposed the RV-8, a standard, tandem-seat airplane—pilot in the front, passenger in the back. An earlier tandem design, the RV-4, had essentially built the company, but in the middle 1990s ...

Van’s Aircraft, the maker of kit aircraft, will celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary at EAA AirVenture along with presenting an all-new aircraft—the RV-15 high-wing taildragger fit for ...

The RV started as a 1978 SA 330J Puma helicopter, tail number N2851T/SN1499, built by SUD Aviation (later known as Aerospatiale and then as Airbus) and delivered to the German military police in 1979.