AURORA, OREGON – On August 27, 2015, the shipping department at Van’s Aircraft Inc. loaded its 937th RV-12 kit empennage package onto the shipping dock, where it was picked up by a customer from Washington state.
What’s the significance of number 937? Well, combined with the S-LSA “fly-away” RV-12s the company has constructed, the total number of RV-12 empennage kits produced and sold now totals 1,000.
This is the sixth RV design to exceed 1000 sales – four designs have exceeded 1000 completions. The number of flying RVs now totals 9,178 of which 407 are RV-12s.