Exciting times, the wings have finally arrived! Looks like that would make it a 9 month, 8 day duration from time of order placement to the time of crate arrival at my home. Honestly, not bad considering the backlog Vans has been working through, and their timing estimates were accurate to within +4 weeks from when I ordered.
The wing crates were much easier to offload from the semi with the forks, since the boxes were only ~200lbs or less each, they were an easy lift (albeit, long boxes). The crates were in good condition, missing a couple of the. 2x4 skids that are integral to the crates, but there was no internal damage to anything. Whomever packs these crates at Vans is an artist - I'm always impressed at how securely packed everything is.
Once I got the crates moved down into the airplane factory (reminder for my new-er readers: I'm currently working in a 1 car garage in my basement), I unloaded all of the part groupings to prepare for inventory. I'll likely have to redistribute my current parts and reorganize things so that I'm not constantly digging through parts when I'm trying to build.
Time-note: I unloaded for ~45 minutes on 3/29,and then unloaded/unpacked the crates on 4/2.