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Type Description
Production Details

Type Description

  • ARV-1 Super2
  • Side by side two-seat, strut-braced, shoulder wing, tricycle landing gear light aircraft, available either factory-built or as a kit. The wing was swept forward 5° to maintain correct centre of gravity balance. It was constructed mainly of aluminium alloy, with fibreglass wingtips, cowlings and canopy frame. The cockpit was a stiff monocoque of "Supral" alloy for lightness and improved crash protection. Aft of the cockpit bulkhead, the aircraft was conventionally built, with frames, longerons and a stressed skin forming a semi-monocoque. Skin sections were both glued and riveted. Ailerons, elevators and flaps are pushrod-controlled, but the rudder and trim are cable-linked. The rudder pedals also control a steerable nosewheel, but the hand-operated disc brakes are not differential and do not contribute to steering. One 77 h.p. Hewland AE75 3-cylinder powerplant.
  • ASL Opus 280
  • As the original ARV-1 Super2, but fitted with an 80 h.p. Bombadier Rotax 912A powerplant. The aircraft produced by Highlander Aircraft Corporation, SkyCraft International and Opus Aircraft were the same as this.

ARV-1 Super2 Specification
Span Length Height Wing Area Empty Wt Max AUW Cruise Speed Maximum Speed Range Service Ceiling
28 ft 6 in 18 ft 7 ft 7 in 92.5 sq ft 675 lb 1100 lb 95 mph/ 83 kn 120 mph/ 104 kn 310 mi
8.69 m 5.49 m 2.31 m 8.59 m2 306 kg 499 kg 153 km/h 193 km/h 499 km

Production Tables Index

ARV-1 Super2
ASL Opus 280
US Built Highlander
Canadian Built Skycraft ARV Super2

ARV-1 Super2
C/n Initial
Registration		 Notes
 35 aircraft; 29 built by ARV Aviation Limited, Sandown Airport, Isle of Wight, and 6 kit built, as indicated.
 ARV 001/PFA 152-11060  G-OARV  Built 1984; retained ARV; to Philip Rodham Snowden, Bury St. Edmunds, Dec 1992
 ARV 002/PFA 152-11048  G-STWO  Built 1985; retained ARV, later ASL; to Gordon Ernest Morris, Plymouth, Dec 1994
 ARV 003/PFA 152-11154  G-DEXP  Built 1985; to Kintai Developments Ltd, St Helier, Jersey, Sep 1988.
 ARV 004/PFA 152-11127  G-BMDO  Built 1985; to Harold Leslie Wensley, Sturton By Stow, Lincoln; to Philip Rodham Snowden, Bury St. Edmunds, Oct 2001, as G-YARV
 ARV 005  G-BPMX  Kit: Built in 1989 by Brian Houghton, St. Helens.
 ARV 006/PFA 152-11138  G-BOGK  Kit: Built in 1989 by the Monewden Flying Group.
 ARV 007  ZK-FSQ  Built 1986; to Dougal Dallison, NZ, Jan 1989; to Georgina Dallison, UK as G-BSRK July 1990.
 ARV 008/PFA 152-12627  G-TARV  Kit: Built in 2001 by Michael Francis Filer and Bernard Childs, Bristol.
 ARV 009/PFA 152-11182  G-BONB  Kit: Built in 1989 by David John Royce fot Bayles And Wylie Ltd, Nottingham. Later re-registered G-COWS.
 ARV 010  G-BMSJ  Built 1986; re-registered G-OPIG Oct 1986; to Airtime (Hampshire) Ltd, New Milton, Hampshire; re-registered G-XARV to Philip Rodham Snowden,
 Bury St. Edmunds, Nov 1995.
 ARV 011  G-BMOK  Built 1986; to Nik Coates Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, March 1987.
 ARV 012  G-BMWE  Built 1986; to Interair (Aviation) Ltd, Weymouth, Dorset, August 1987.
 ARV 013  G-BMWF  Built 1986; to Finimetal Ltd, St Helier, Jersey, April 1987.
 ARV 014/PFA 152-12802  G-BMWG  Built 1986; to Airspeed Aviation Ltd, Burnaston, Derby, June 1987. Rebuilt 1995 by James Noel Crawford Shields, Conlig, Newtownards 1995 as
 G-BWBZ.
 ARV 015  G-BMWH  Built 1986; to Colton Aviation International Plc, Mill Hill London, June 1987. To Skylight, Hilversum Airport, as PH-ARV, May 1989.
 ARV 016  G-BMWI  Built 1986; to Chartersteps Ltd, Edinburgh June 1987.
 ARV 017  G-BMWJ  Built 1986; retained ARV; to Mid-West Aero Engines Ltd, Dursley, Gloucestershire, Nov 1992. See Note 2.
 ARV 018  G-BMWK  Built 1986; re-registered G-ERMO Jan 1987; to Michael J Holdsworth Ltd, Buxton, Derbyshire, Oct 1987.
 ARV 019  G-BMWL  Built 1987; re-registered G-BNGY June 1987; to Graham Cook Aviation Ltd, Southern Aero Club Ltd, Shoreham-By-Sea, East Sussex, Oct 1987.
 ARV 020  G-BMWM  Built 1987; to Adrianair Ltd, Dudley, West Midlands, Sep 1990.
 ARV 021  G-BNGV  Built 1986; to Golf Victor Ltd, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Oct 1987.
 ARV 022  G-BNGW  Built 1986; to Graham Cook Aviation Ltd, Southern Aero Club Ltd, Shoreham-By-Sea, East Sussex, Oct 1987.
 ARV 023  G-BNGX  Built 1986; to Graham Cook Aviation Ltd, Southern Aero Club Ltd, Shoreham-By-Sea, East Sussex, Oct 1987. To Tony Dawson of Opus Aircraft
 Llc, USA, Dec 2001, as N870A for use as Opus Super 2 demonstrator.
 ARV 024  G-BNGZ  Built 1986; re-registered G-OTAL Sep 1987; to Taurus Aviation Ltd, Sandown, Isle Of Wight Nov 1988.
 ARV 025  G-BNHA  Built 1986; re-registered G-POOL Aug 1987; to Philip Andrew Dawson, St Denis Du Pin, France, March 1996, via Falstaff Finance Ltd.
 ARV 026  G-BNHB  Built 1986; to Engine Developments Ltd, Rugby, Warwickshire August 1988.
 ARV 027  G-BNHC  Built 1986; to Lombard North Central Plc, Redhill, Sep 1990
 ARV 028  G-BNHD  Built 1986; retained ARV, later ASL; to Dennis Doersam, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as C-GEEO, March 1998.
 ARV 029  G-BNHE  Built 1992; retained ARV, later ASL; to Leslie Joseph Joyce, Liverpool, March 1995.
 ARV 030  G-BNVG  Built 1987; retained ARV, later ASL.
 ARV 031  G-BNVH  Built 1987; retained ARV, later ASL; to Peter Glaw via Skycraft International Inc., Barrie , Ontario, Canada, as C-IPBW, March 1995.
 ARV 032  G-BNVI  Built 1987; retained ARV; to Adrianair Ltd, London Sep 1990; to Paul V. Harper of Homeworth, Ohio, USA, in November 1999 as N63997 then to
 Jonathan Davies, Caledon, Ontario, Canada, in July 2002 as C-IAGV (although identified as a Skycraft).
 ARV 033  G-BNVJ  Built 1987; retained ARV, later ASL. To Karl-Ebbe Jönsson, Sweden, as SE-KYP, Oct 1994; became prototype ASL Opus 280
 ARV 034/PFA 152-12424  G-BUXH  Kit: Built in 1993 by Peter Martin Harrison, Boston, Lincs. Re-Registered G-ORIX.
 ARV 035/PFA 152-13035  G-ZARV  Kit: Built in 1998 by Philip Rodham Snowden, Bury St. Edmunds.
 ARV 036  G-BNVM  Not built
 ARV 037  G-BNVN  Not built
 ARV 038  G-BNVO  Not built
 ARV 039  G-BNVP  Not built
 ARV 040  G-BNVR  Ntu - to SE-LCF as ASL Opus 280
 ARV 041  PH-OPU  Registration reserved August 1995 by Mastenbroek Aeroskill BV but ntu. Cancelled May 1998. Became SE-LIZ.
Total Production 35
Total Production (Not Completed) 6
ASL Opus 280
C/n Initial
Registration		 Notes
 2 aircraft built by ASL Hagfors Aero AB, Råda, in 1995, from uncompleted ARV airframes plus 1 ARV Super2 converted as prototype.
 33-1046  SE-KYP  Ex ARV 033. To Lomma Larsson, June 1999.
 40-1047  SE-LCF  Ex ARV 040. To A.L.E. Berglund, Hagfors, Dec 1998.
 41-1045  SE-LIZ  Ex ARV 041; To N. L. R. von Koch, Norrköping.
Total Production (New Built) 2
Total Production (Ex-ARV Super2) 1
US Built Highlander (1)
C/n Initial
Registration		 Notes
 1 aircraft built by the Highlander Aircraft Corp, Saint Paul, Minnesota. First flew February 1996.
 0001  N280KT  
Total Production 1
Canadian Built Skycraft ARV Super2
C/n Initial
Registration		 Notes
 1 aircraft built by Skycraft International Inc. in 2001.
 CAN-002  C-IGYY  To Douglas Bruce, Bowmanville, Ontario.
Total Production 1

Notes

  1. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2009 records that by August 1996, Highlander had sold six kits, two of which were flying by year end. However, only one appears on the FAA database.
  2. CAA database G-INFO shows G-BMWJ going to Germany in late 1999. The Super 2 owners website [1] speculates that it bacame N630A, one of the two aircaft acquired by Opus Aircraft Llc in the USA (the other being G-BNGX/N870A). Both are now believed to be in China.

Production References

  1. http://sites.google.com/site/flyarv/super2-fleet-1, now defunct.

Page Revision History

Revised at Version 2.0.0
  • Improved Type Description and Added Specification details.
  • ARV 041 moved from Opus 280 to ARV Table.
Revised at Version 1.4.0
  • Data moved to new page and completely rewritten.