Sadly, my father is putting up for sale the project of his life. Its an RV-8 homebuilt airplane. About fifteen years ago, I visited my dad and seen a pile of AL sheeting and extruded AL support stock for ribs etc. I spent two days with him fabricating one side of the vertical fin on the tail. I thought, "there ain't no way". Well, only 6000 logged hours of work later, it flew. He went on to outfit it with every conceivable electronic navigation device for full IFR rating.
Here's a couples links. Kinda shows what's involved.
SPECIAL AIRWOTTHINESS CERTIFICATE ------------ 09/ 13/ 00 LYCOMING ENGINE- 0-360 A1A 180 HP. ENGINE HAS 500 HOURS AS OF 2/22/10
414 HRS. INSTALLED UNISON SLICK AIRCRAFT MAGS.OIL AND FILTER HAS BEEN CHANGED EACH 25 HRS. WITH PHILLIPS 20 W-50 OIL AND
12 OZ. AV BLENDPLANE HAS NEAR NEW MICHELIN TIRES
I CRUISE AT 150 KNTS
HOSES
NEW FLEXIBLE IN 2009
OIL, GASOLINE, INSTRUMENT LINES
OIL COOLER, FUEL PUMP, AND CARBURATOR
RADIOS GMA 340 AUDIO PANEL
GNS 430 GPS
GTX 327 TRANSPONDER
MX 20 MFD
GI 106 NAV. INDICATOR
ALTITUDE HOLD AUTO PILOT
CARUS 3000 V. STERILIZER
STEC C 1261-17-14 PITCH COMPUTER
STEC 0107-5 PS PITCH SERVO
STEC 0111 TRANSDUCER
GARMIN 3-4-56 GPS ANTENNA
CI-122 COMM. ANTENNA
IMC INSTRUMENTS
3 1/8" ATTITUDE INDICATOR / ELECTRIC 3 1/8" GYRO COMPASS/ ELECTRIC 3 1/8" TURN AND BANK INDICATOR / ELECTRIC 2 ¼" VERTICAL SPEED INDICATORSENSENICH AIRCRAFT PROPELLER
PROPELLER MODEL- 72M859-1-83
PROPELLER SERIAL NUMBER - 32942
Pics can be emailed if you're interested.
Karl