This printed model of the RV-15 is used by the team when talking about configuration changes.
But this issue goes to the press before they leave for the show and, as they say in flight test, anything can happen. As this is written, the RV-15 has completed its early flights without incident and was on track to clear hurdles to be flown to AirVenture. What you see on these pages is, indeed, the RV-15. (We’ll explain.) We have been gifted early access to the RV-15 in the weeks before its AirVenture debut, including long debriefs with the engineering staff, many offside discussions about the airplane and where it might fit in the Experimental world and many other things besides. Sure, there were online memes and forum speculation, including a few snapshots of Maules and things with “RV-15” badly Photoshopped on the tail, but the actual airplane kept a very low profile through much of 2022. Speculation was heavy as AirVenture approached last year-after a hiatus of two years-so it was with great celebration that Van’s announced that, yes indeed, there would be an RV-15! And there was significant discussion when they added “…and it will be a high-wing, backcountry-capable aircraft with sticks.” And that was all the detail they would offer at AirVenture and, amazingly, little more has leaked out since then.
Basic math says that Van’s has come out with a new model every 3.57 years (50 years, 14 models if you count tricycle-gear variations separately), and it has been a few since something entirely new has come out of Aurora.
Whether you want a single-seater that is a nimble high performer or you want to carry four adults at 170 knots for 800 miles, you can find the airplane of your dreams from Van’s-as long as it is a low-wing machine.
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Van’s Aircraft at 50 is a remarkable company with an incredible history and a full product line-of low-wing aircraft.
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