After much thought and deliberation Tricia and I have decided to make a huge lifestyle change. We have been talking about this for a year or so and decided now is the time. We are giving up living on land and going to buy a sailing yacht to live aboard. Specifically a 2021 Leopard 45, like this one here.
If you know anybody who is in the market for an exceptional award winning RV-8 please refer them to our Barnstormers Ad here.
For those of you seeing this post coming from the Barnstormers Ad here is a link to our YouTube channel.
This blog post is going out to all you current builders who have found this site to be helpful. I started the blog to record my build just for me but has helped others in their process. It costs me around $700 a year to just keep up and running. That wasn’t a big deal as I was actively adding to it but now that I’m no longer building and actually flying I don’t really need to keep it up and running for me.
If you find the blog and all the photos of the RV-8 build process helpful please consider donating via the PayPal link at the bottom of the home page.
If it ends up being just me I think this will be the last year I keep it up and running. $700 buys more gas for me to fly and enjoy the RV-8!
Thanks for considering any donation!
Michael
Thank you Jason B. for the incredible $50 donation to help offset the cost of this blog.
Help us raise money for our local Vintage Wings & Wheels museum aviation scholarship.
This is the second year for the annual planes & pooches calendar to raise money for the scholarship. We have a lot of fun having our dogs photographed with our planes. It’s always. Fun time and a friendly competition to see who’s pup comes out on top.
Vote for our Bogey…he will make all your dreams come true!
A big thank you to Bryan Cahill for his donation to the blog. I’ve always said that I will keep this up and running for as long as I can as my contribution to this great community. Your donation will go directly to keeping this blog up, the expense is really housing all of the 8000+ photos. What a great community, the RV world has been great to me! our new adventure has started, with sailing our Leopard 50 catamaran from Hilton Head, SC to Fort Lauderdale, FL with our training Captain.
The RV-8 has been sold and delivered to Texas, It is now at a good home with a great pilot! Thanks for all the comments and interest. On to our new adventure!
Price: $270,000.00
Vans RV-8 – Reserve Grand Champion Oshkosh 2021
🌞 Also awarded Exceptional Achievement at Sun ’n Fun 2021
This is your chance to own one of the most recognized and beautifully built Vans RV-8s in the country. With elite craftsmanship, premium avionics, and a head-turning P-51D Man O’ War replica paint scheme, this aircraft is show-ready and fully equipped for serious cross-country or sport flying.
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Aircraft Overview:
• Model: Vans RV-8 (Tailwheel)
• Airframe Time: 239.1 hours
• Engine: Superior IO-375-M1S (Built by AeroSport Power) – 239.1 hrs
Sorry I had an apparent issue with the IP address that the security application, Sucuri, used for my blog. It had apparently changed and I didn’t know about it. So when the site was accessed Sucuri pointed the user to a IP address that was no longer valid giving an error that looked like the site was down. I got the new IP address loaded up and all should be well.
We will be in OshKosh for Airventure 2023 for the entire week. Campsite number will be provided once we pull the trigger on the full hookup area of camp Scholler. Hope to see everyone there!
After much thought and deliberation Tricia and I have decided to make a huge lifestyle change. We have been talking about this for a year or so and decided now is the time. We are giving up living on land and going to buy a sailing yacht to live aboard. Specifically a 2021 Leopard 45, like this one here.
