RV-14 Project

Because of peeling slosh in the fuel tanks of their Vans RV-6, Dave Miller and Sheriff Bill Benedict fabricated new tanks for the plane. After installing the tanks, they decided if they could build fuel tanks, they could build an entire plane. In March 2016, along with their partners, Ken (a retired Navy flight surgeon & civilian cancer surgeon) and Leslie ( a dermatologist) Gross, they ordered a Vans RV-14 kit. They have worked on their plane in a Port Angeles hangar for the past three years and are now preparing to test fly it. After running the engines twice, and calibrating the fuel tanks, they were waiting for a DAR to inspect the plane and issue the airworthiness certificate and operating limitations. But their DAR got stuck in Hong Kong doing design work, so another DAR was contacted, was available, and the paperwork was issued February 7th. On February 8th the snow started; however, soon the RV14A N89KG will start flying.

Three EAA430 tech advisors inspected the project: Jim Cone, Dan Masys & Harry Cook.

The RV-14 has the following :

Aluminum airframe

Lift canopy

Backup battery & alternator

Garmin G5, G3X with second screen, and GTN 750 GPS 2 com radios Two axis Garmin autopilots, pitch and roll 1Nav radio in the GTN 750 and 3 GPS receivers … the G5, the G3X, and the GTN 750 3 GPS antennas, two comm antennas, one transponder antenna and one nav antenna M89KG Inspecting vertical stabilizer Bill and Jim Cone, tech advisor “Riveting good, continue on!”