MSFS Complete with Base Model

MSFS Van's Aircraft RV-4

Van’s Aircraft RV-4 offers recreational flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 with a tandem-seat, low-wing taildragger powered by an O-360 engine and fixed-pitch propeller. The complete aircraft package includes a paintkit for custom liveries, smoke and lighting effects, an additional wing variant, and animated carburetor-heat and elevator-trim controls.

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Flight Simulator 2020 Flight Simulator 2024

Base model included

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A blue-and-white low-wing aircraft with two occupants sits beside a hangar, casting a long shadow across the apron.

A black propeller aircraft with two occupants sits on tire-marked pavement, with parked airliners and airport buildings behind it.

A black single-engine aircraft with a checkered tail sits on a tire-marked runway, with terminal buildings and parked airliners behind it.

A white aircraft with red sunburst wing and tail stripes sits on cracked runway pavement, viewed directly from above.

A white low-wing aircraft faces forward on the apron, with parked cars beside hangars and a red biplane to the right.

A blue-and-white light aircraft sits beside a corrugated hangar, with low sunlight casting long shadows across the apron.

A white low-wing aircraft with red sunburst markings and registration EC-KCN sits on the apron, with a red biplane behind it.

A black single-engine propeller aircraft sits on a marked runway, with a rainbow, parked airliners, and airport buildings behind it.

A blue-and-white low-wing airplane sits on the apron beside a hangar, with its propeller spinning and two occupants visible.

A silver and blue single-engine aircraft with a checkered tail flies above a winding river and dense urban buildings.

A black single-engine aircraft with a checkered rudder sits on a runway covered in tire marks under a golden sky.

A white low-wing aircraft with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies over patchwork fields and industrial buildings beneath cloudy skies.

A black RV-4 with red graphics and two occupants sits on airport pavement, with terminal buildings and airliners behind it.

A white low-wing aircraft with red stripes and a spinning propeller sits on the apron near hangars under a golden sky.

A blue, black, and white taildragger marked EC-KCN sits beside hangars with its propeller spinning in low sunlight.

A blue and white single-engine aircraft flies low over runway threshold markings, with a taxiway and hangar to the right.

A blue and silver aircraft with striped wings and fixed landing gear flies above dense neighborhoods beneath a yellow-orange horizon.

A white low-wing aircraft with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies above a rural runway and patchwork fields beneath golden clouds.

A red-and-white light aircraft sits beside airport fuel pumps on a broad apron beneath low, layered clouds.

A blue and silver propeller aircraft with striped wings and a checkered tail banks above an urban river under an orange sky.

A rearward cockpit view shows a dark seatback, white tail surfaces with red stripes, and runway markings beneath a clear sky.

A silver single-engine airplane with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies above a sprawling city beneath a pink and orange sky.

A white aircraft with red sunburst markings flies above a dense city and winding river beneath a pink-tinged sky.

A blue and white aerobatic aircraft marked EC-KCN flies low over airport taxiways, with hangars and trees behind it.

A white tailwheel aircraft with orange sunburst markings and registration EC-KCN sits on a runway with its propeller spinning.

A red-and-white tailwheel aircraft marked EC-KCN stands on pavement, viewed from behind with its striped tail prominent against clear blue sky.

A black single-engine aircraft with a checkered tail and red dragon emblem sits on airport pavement beneath a golden sky.

A red-and-white propeller aircraft marked EC-KCN flies above a winding river and urban airport beneath a pastel sky.

A black single-engine aircraft with a checkered tail and EC-KCN registration sits on airport pavement beneath a yellow-tinged sky.

A white low-wing aircraft with orange stripes and two occupants sits on runway markings with its propeller spinning.

A red-and-white propeller aircraft marked EC-KCN sits on a runway, viewed from behind with a pilot visible beneath its bubble canopy.

A white propeller aircraft with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies above a sprawling city and winding river beneath a pink horizon.

A blue-and-white single-engine aircraft flies low over a marked runway, with fixed landing gear and two occupants visible beneath its canopy.

Two headset-wearing occupants sit beneath a bubble canopy in a white aircraft with red stripes beside runway markings.

A white propeller aircraft with red wing stripes flies above a runway, patchwork fields, and wooded areas beneath an overcast sky.

The cockpit contains analog gauges, a color navigation display, a central control stick, rudder pedals, and switches along the right console.

An aircraft wing fills the side window view above a sprawling city illuminated by streetlights and building lights at night.

A blue-and-white light aircraft flies just above a marked runway threshold, with fixed landing gear and surrounding fields visible.

The cockpit features round analog gauges, a central GPS display, and engine controls, with runway threshold markings visible ahead.

An aircraft cockpit with illuminated analog gauges overlooks a sprawling city at night, with a dark river winding between lit buildings.

The cockpit view shows analog gauges, toggle switches, and a red-and-white striped wing beside white runway markings.

A black single-engine aircraft with a checkered tail banks above runway 09 beside a waterway under an orange evening sky.

A white propeller aircraft with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies above patchwork farmland beneath low clouds.

A dark single-engine airplane with fixed landing gear banks above a city river and bridge beneath a cloudy sunset sky.

The cockpit overlooks a river bordered by city lights at night, with illuminated analog gauges and registration EC-KCN visible on the panel.

A blue-and-white propeller aircraft flies low over an airfield, with two occupants beneath its bubble canopy and long shadows below.

A white, red-striped propeller aircraft with fixed landing gear flies above patchwork farmland beneath golden clouds.

A black aircraft marked EC-KCN banks above a waterfront runway at sunset, displaying a red bull emblem and checkered tail markings.

A propeller aircraft sits on a floodlit apron at night, with bright light glare and a KLM jet behind it.

A black single-engine aircraft with white stripes, a checkered tail, and red emblems sits on an airport apron at night.

A blue-and-silver propeller aircraft with striped wings and a checkered tail flies above a winding river beneath an orange horizon.

A single-engine airplane flies above illuminated city streets and waterways at night, with a bright light shining from its left wing.

A dark cockpit with a curved instrument coaming and prominent left support overlooks illuminated streets and buildings at night.

A single-engine propeller aircraft flies above a paved airfield, with trees lining the horizon and warm sunlight brightening the clear sky.

A blue and white propeller aircraft with fixed landing gear flies low over fields and trees with the sun near the horizon.

A dark cockpit features illuminated analog gauges, a color navigation display, and a transponder reading 7000, with city lights visible outside.

A black RV-4 with white stripes and red graphics sits on pavement at night, its bright wing light producing glare.

A single-engine airplane flies overhead, showing striped wing undersides, fixed landing gear, a spinning propeller, and registration EC-KCN against clear sky.

A white single-engine aircraft with red stripes and fixed landing gear flies overhead against a cloud-streaked sky and pink horizon.

A single-engine aircraft with fixed landing gear and red tail stripes flies overhead against a hazy, golden sky.

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Expert Overview

I flew deejing’s RV-4 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 as a casual kitplane rather than a handling reference. The fixed-pitch propeller kept my engine-management workload straightforward, while the animated carburetor-heat and elevator-trim controls provided useful visual touches in the cockpit. The tandem seating gives this little taildragger a different character from the side-by-side RV-7.

I found the exterior visibly unfinished in places, consistent with the developer’s acknowledgment of missing rivets and other details. The package combines its own modeling with default Asobo resources and CAP 10 sounds and textures; it also supplies a paintkit, smoke effects and another wing variant. For me, its appeal lies in recreational flying, with real-world systems and handling fidelity explicitly outside its current scope.

deejing’s freeware Van’s Aircraft RV-4 brings a two-seat kitplane to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024, with a complete base model, bundled paintkit and smoke effects. This work-in-progress aircraft favors recreational flying rather than a faithful simulation of real-world RV-4 systems and handling.

A Tandem-Seat RV-4 for Recreational Flying

Van’s Aircraft supplies the real RV-4 in kit form for amateur construction. Its low-wing, tailwheel layout and tandem cockpit distinguish it from the side-by-side RV-7; two occupants sit one behind the other, with the pilot flying from the front seat.

For this rendition, deejing specifies an O-360 engine and fixed-pitch propeller. That propeller configuration keeps engine management simpler than a constant-speed installation, since it offers no separate blade-pitch control. However, the developer explicitly cautions that the aircraft does not reproduce real-life operation, so treat it as a casual flying option rather than a procedures or handling trainer.

Model, Effects and Repainting Resources

Complete freeware package: The download includes the base aircraft as well as a full paintkit for creating liveries.
Shared simulator resources: The model uses default Asobo assets and textures, with the developer citing the RV-7 as a comparison for this approach. It also draws sounds and some textures from the CAP 10.
Ongoing exterior work: The developer identifies missing rivets and other details and plans further modeling work. Later updates revise the 3D model and add another wing variant.
Animated details: Release updates include carburetor-heat and elevator-trim animations, alongside changes to the flaps and ailerons.
Smoke and lighting: BlueMesh supplies the smoke FX. The additional lighting effects draw on r9r-dev’s fs2020-vl3-rotax915 project.

RV-4 Release Changes Through v1.0.6

The supplied release history lists v1.0.6, dated September 5, 2024, as the current version. Across these revisions, deejing addresses electrical and sound faults while continuing work on the aircraft’s visuals, controls and flight model.

v1.0.1 — March 12, 2024: The initial-release entry records a sound fix.
v1.0.2 — March 18, 2024: Fixed a battery issue and rudder behavior, then updated interior details and textures.
v1.0.3 — April 23, 2024: Updated the BlueMesh smoke, added lights from the r9r-dev project, improved flaps and ailerons, and revised the carburetor-heat animation.
v1.0.4 — April 24, 2024: Fixed missing smoke.
v1.0.5 — May 23, 2024: Addressed missing smoke again, updated the flaps, livery and 3D model, and added elevator-trim animation.
v1.0.6 — September 5, 2024: Fixed the battery, changed the smoke color, added a new wing variant and updated the flight model.

Community Folder Installation

Extract the deejing-aircraft-rv4 folder from the download archive into your simulator’s Community folder. The archive also contains the complete paintkit for repaint work.

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vans-rv4-msfs-deejing.zip

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643.75 MB

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14 September 2026

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How to install this mod

MSFS Complete with Base Model

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Locate your MSFS Community folder

All MSFS add-ons live in the Community folder. Microsoft Store / Game Pass version: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community\. Steam version: %APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community\. Tip: enable Developer Mode in MSFS to see your exact Community folder path.
Copy the aircraft package into Community

Drag the extracted aircraft folder into your Community folder. Some aircraft require dependencies (like Working Title CJ4, FlyByWire A32NX) — check the readme.
Restart MSFS

Close MSFS completely and relaunch. The new content appears in the Content Manager, on the World Map, or in the aircraft/livery selector.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.