Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2011 @ 11:41 AM
I don’t know much about this one except that it is a French-built Alpavia RF4, rather than a German Sportavia RF4D, and was apparently the second production example.
The only structural difference I can see is that it has fewer longitudinal stringers reinforcing the rear fuselage.
It crashed long ago (fatally, I believe) but the fuselage aft of the spar was salvaged. Unfortunately that was subsequently sawn up into four pieces for transportation by an ‘aircraft engineer’ who should have known better. The remains are now owned by my flying partner Matthew Hill and reside in my garage.
That’s all I know.
Bob
[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 @ 01:24 PM]
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Flying and displaying Fournier RF4Ds VH-HDO and G-AWGN, building replica RF6B G-RFGB and custodian of RF6B prototype F-BPXV