Aircraft sheet metal repair
Specializing in minor and major sheet metal repairs to Cessna 180 and Cessna 185 aircraft. Repairing control surfaces to major gearbox repairs as well as STC modifications or service bulletins.
Tail problems
We took the tail off to give this 180 a good look and opened up a can of worms.
170 horizontal rebuild
Sometime we find things that we wish we had not. Corrosion control and more.
180 Horizontal skin replacement
This is no easy job and can take an easy 35 hours of labor, but in the end it is as good as new. Horizontals can get a lot of beating and after 60 years they can look it to.
Wing tip repair
This wing is off a 175 converted to a tail wheel and then given a horse power up grade with a Franklin 220, add 185 gear and a new panel and you have a real ramp pleaser.
Wing tip repair
Cessna 182E nose gear repair
This is a common repair when a 182 leaves the runway for one reason or another.
Old cowling
it is rare to see a cowling without some sort of repair and the older the plane the more patches.
Seat rails in a 170
This is easy to do when the floors are out and when you do all four it really looks nice.
Taylorcraft cowl
Building a cowl for a BC12D with a 100 hp O200.
AD 2020-18-01 this is an inspection of the lower door post for cracks on 182
We traveled out of town to do this repair after cracks were found on the lower door post. We used a AMOC provided by Hutch Aviation, it is apparently an exact copy of the Cessna kit and we installed using the Cessna kit instructions SK-115.
Cowl louver
Installation of the famous cowl louvers.
QMI horizontal attachment reinforcement
Installation of the QMI tail reinforcement
Sea plane bushings
I hate those rubber fire wall bushings..
Cessna Cardinal spar replacement
Everyone must know by now the SB and AD on the Cessna 210 and the SB on the carry through spar well here I am neck deep in replacing a Cardinal spar.
Cessna 180 baggage door and more
- Removing a camera hatch in my 1953 Cessna 180 and installing a baggage door.
Cessna 170B wing repair
This wing hit a duck, most of the time we will pound out the dent and add the Sportsman cuff, spend just as much and you will get better performance but seeing how I inherited the job it was a little to late for that.
Mooney wing tip
The owner dented his tip after only an hour in the plane, just bought it, engine quit, landed on a road and all he got was a ding in the wing tip.
Door handle replacement
How many time have you gone to open your door and the spring is broke, or the handle brakes? This is an option to looking for old parts on eBay.
Fuselage repair
Sometimes you have to start with the bare basics.
Beech Sundowner baggage door
- B19 same as B23This Beech is a B19, very much like a Sundowner, same airframe less a few windows and a baggage door so my customer wanted a baggage door so he got the parts from a junk yard and handed them to me in a bag. It turned out not to be to bad, I considered this or be a minor alteration because of the identical structure of the later models of Sundowners with the baggage door.
170 Baggage door
Installation of a baggage door in a Cessna 170
Helicopter
- Floor viewing window for swing loadsAirbus AS350 A Star installation of vertical viewing window.
Horizontal tip replacement
Replaced both left and right horizontal tips with Mc Farlane tips using 8 32 screws in place of rivets.
Wing rebuild
Cessna 170, 180, 185 and others..............................