I got a letter from Van's yesterday. Basically, they bit off more than they could chew and have some indigestion with respect to assembling, crating and shipping wing kits. VAF is full of frustrated posts regarding wing kits that did not have the main spars included, but are backordered without an expected shipping date. As you can imagine, it's very frustrating to have lots of parts (ribs, skins, etc) but no spar upon which to attach them.
Van's letter explicitly acknowledges this and states that they are holding shipments for approximately 30 days while they get back on track with their suppliers. They will be expediting delivery of the backordered spars (and other items) to the kits that have already been shipped, and then resume shipments of complete kits.
While I'm not happy that my delivery date is being pushed back, I am very happy that Van's is doing it. This is just another variation of "do it right or do it over" and I'll have a full kit (and hopefully updated instructions) when my kit ships sometime in July.
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