General Aviation
Vans RV-3A
Manufacturer: Vans Aircraft
The RV‑1 is the first aircraft built by Van’s Aircraft, a modified Stits SA‑3A Playboy that Richard VanGrunsven upgraded with a 125 hp Lycoming O‑290G engine. It is a single‑seat, low‑wing, strut‑braced airplane with conventional landing gear and a bubble canopy. The RV‑1’s aluminum wing with flaps and Horner wing tips lowered its stall speed to 50 mph, giving it good performance for a homebuilt aircraft. The fuselage is made of welded steel tube, a construction method that later models abandoned for all‑aluminum frames.
Aircraft Facts
- Type Key
- vans-rv-3a
- Class
- General Aviation
- Registry Count
- 24
- Example Registration
- N102KC
Specifications
- Wingspan
- 6.1 m / 20 ft
- Length
- 5.5 m / 18 ft
- Max Speed
- 80 km/h / 50 mph
- Cruise Speed
- 80 km/h / 50 mph
Variants
- RV-3A- 24 registrations - Example N102KC
Related Aircraft
- Vans RV-8 - 1,116 registrations
- Vans RV-4 - 957 registrations
- Vans RV-6 - 894 registrations
- Vans RV-7A - 839 registrations
- Vans RV-6A - 794 registrations
- Vans RV-10 - 744 registrations
- Vans RV-7 - 714 registrations
- Vans RV-9A - 640 registrations
Machine-Readable Resources
Sources
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=102KC
- https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/releasable_aircraft_download
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=134ME
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=139BS
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=163Y
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=16MR
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=19EH
- https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=21CK
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VanGrunsven_RV-1