RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 184. Van's RV-3 (N17RV c/n 173)
Photographed at Evergreen Airfield, Vancouver, Washington, USA, August 1972, by Ron Dupas

Van's RV-3

Remarks by Ron Dupas: "This prototype first flown in 1971, crashed in 1973 near Twin Falls, Idaho, USA, due to fuel starvation and was badly damaged. (Accident Report). It was rebuilt in 1977."

Advertisement text from Kitplanes magazine, July 1989.
Van's RV-3
(Robert Hodgson Memorial Collection)

02/08/2026. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "By July 2003 the N17RV was on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and still is as of this day."


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