This plane has been in the shop for at least 4 years and has been a ground up restoration, nothing has not been touched and no expense spared. This is truly the owners pride and joy and we put our hearts into this for him. It has made us happy and to be appreciated for…
Our 180J project is coming to a close and is looking very good. This 180J is about as new as they come. Built in 1974 and then did not make it out of a lake in Alaska in 1981 from there it went from the back of a hanger and became a pet project of…
We have two long term projects that we are finally closing in on and going to take both to Oshkosh, just for the fun of it. The 170 B has been a customer project and the Customer is the best customer ever! It is truly a beautiful 170B, the other is our 180J, 1974, Toal…
we had an issue the other day installing the horizontal where the hinge bushing got stuck on the bolt. It turned out that the bushing for some reason had a smaller diameter than the bolt and when we installed the bolt it froze to the bushing….it took some creative skill and some new parts to…
The Sportsman Leading edge is a great modification for early Cessna 100 series aircraft, lower stall speed, enhancing roll control and stall Characteristics. The installation takes some time and it seems that what should be easy sometimes takes more time than you think to get the best fit. The devil is in the details..
Busy as always from competing our 180J and the 170 projects, recovering the wings on the Champ, annuals, Sportsman install, Horizontal rebuilds…..
Let’s hope that 2026 is a peaceful year where the rest of our non aviation world can come together and realize we have more in common that not. The one thread that holds us all together is aviation, it always amazes me when we sit around a fire and chat how different we all are…
This is a really cool modification to get the real bush look to an early 182, the nice thing is the tall gear these 182’s came with. More prop clearance is great but what you really need to be careful of, speaking from a maintenance side is what happens if you don’t keep your CG…
The Champ is back in the Air! The O 235 sounds so sweet and when you get to run it a full throttle for a few hours to break in the cylinders it is even better. And the boss is back up and running after a brief hiatus in the lazy boy…..Ribs are still talking…
I am healing up but in the time I am out of the shop things still go on….. Max and I decided to leave the bottom end of the O-235 alone and just put new cylinders on the Champ. These cylinders came with the Champ when we bought it and for good reason. You always…
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