A few things have to happen before this kit is put into production:
- It has to perform as expected during test flying
- The POC aircraft has to generate sufficient market interest to justify production
My guess is (subject to test flying going well without major changes) that Van's will "announce" kits at Sun-n-Fun. I wouldn't expect to see them until summer '07. That suggests AirVenture. Since the aircraft doesn't share any other components with the other RV aircraft, there will be quite a bit of tooling required to put this into production.
It's an enormous undertaking