Description

 RV-14A Model Aircraft

Fly with the RV-14A Model Aircraft in this hand crafted Wooden model. Each piece is carved from wood and hand painted to provide a piece you’ll love.

Wingspan – 18 inches

The RV-14 is an American aerobatic kit aircraft designed by Richard VanGrunsven and produced by Van’s Aircraft. It was introduced at AirVenture in July 2012.[1] The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.[3][4]

As of October 2019, 113 RV-14s have been completed and flown.

Design and development
Derived from the four-seat RV-10, RV-14 design work was commenced several years before its 2012 debut. It is an aerobatic two-seater designed to accommodate large pilots and offer greater baggage space, to comply with the US experimental amateur-built aircraft rules. The design goals included improved visibility, a wider cabin, a low landing speed achieved by larger and more effective flaps, good rate-of-climb and glide ratio, landing gear that meets FAR Part 23 certification standards and an airframe designed to accommodate the Lycoming IO-390 powerplant. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The RV-14 is built from aluminum sheet. The prototype was fitted with a 210 hp (157 kW) Lycoming IO-390 four-stroke powerplant. The kit is intended to be easier to assemble than earlier Van’s designs through the use of pre-punched and pre-formed fuselage longerons, pre-installed wiring, plug-in avionics, a pre-trimmed and ready-to-install bubble canopy, pre-welded canopy frame, pre-fitted engine baffles as well as matched pre-punched holes. The RV-14 offers several instrument panel choices, including one designed to take modern EFIS systems, like the Dynon SkyView, without any additional cutting, as well as a blank panel that can be customized by the builder.

The manufacturer offers aircraft type transition training and has built an RV-14 for this purpose.