Recovery Comes Slowly To The Sport and GA Communities...

Van’s Aircraft reports that they are resuming limited scheduling of demonstration flights at its Aurora, Oregon headquarters (KUAO) and at their East Coast representative’s location at New Garden Airport (N57 – Chester County, PA).

But... they also note that they are not currently taking walk-in requests for demo flights – all appointments must be pre-arranged and confirmed and are offered on an as-available basis.

The factory, however, is still closed to the public and factory tours are not available at this time.

Van's will be resuming demo flights and transition training at the New Garden Airport, PA location in the RV-10 and RV-14A aircraft. Their East Coast rep and instructor is Joe “Zack” Czachorowski, who can be reached via email at zack@vansaircraft.com. You may email him to schedule appointments for demo flights and transition training, which will resume beginning May 17th. Note that transition training appointments will be given priority over demo flights.

To schedule demo flights at Van's headquarters in Aurora, Oregon please email info@vansaircraft.com with the aircraft you wish to demo, and the dates you are available. They provide demo flights in the RV-7A, RV-10, RV-12iS, RV-14 and RV-14A from the headquarters location. These aircraft are also used for training purposes, so not all aircraft are available for demo flights at all times.

Note that transition training with instructor Mike Seager resumed in Oregon earlier this year. To contact Mike for transition training, please email rv6cfi@hotmail.com.

Additional transition training instructors and resources can be found on the Van's web site’s RV Flight Training page.

Van's notes that specific aircraft availability, pilot availability and weather conditions are the final determining factors in whether or not they will conduct a flight on any given day, and as such all flights are subject to cancellation up to the last moment should conditions or circumstances dictate. In the event health-related mandates modify or the availability of demo flights and/or transition training, they will make schedule adjustments as required.

FMI: https://www.vansaircraft.com/