Bentley Air

170 horizontal rebuild

Corrision control

Tail problems

We took the tail off to give this 180 a good look and opened up a can of worms...

Cessna 182

Replacing a spar carry through because of corrision

Wing rebuild

Cessna 170, 180, 185 and others..............................

Horizontal tip replacement

Replaced both left and right horizontal tips with Mc Farlane tips using 8 32 screws in place of rivets.

Helicopter

- Floor viewing window for swing loadsAirbus AS350 A Star installation of vertical viewing window.

170 Baggage door

Installation of a baggage door in a Cessna 170

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.

Fuselage repair

Sometimes you have to start with the bare basics.

Door handle replacement

How many time have you gone to open your door and the spring is broke, or the handle brakes?

Mooney wing tip

- RepairThe 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. 

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.

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.

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.

Sea plane bushings

I hate those rubber fire wall bushings..

QMI horizontal attachment reinforcement

Installation of the QMI tail reinforcement 

Cowl louver

Installation of the famous cowl louvers.

AD 2020-18-01 this is an inspection of the lower door post for cracks on 182’s

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.

Taylorcraft cowl

Building a cowl for a BC12D with a 100 hp O200.

Seat rails in a 170

This is easy to do when the floors are out

Old cowling

it is rare to see a cowling without some sort of repair and the older the plane the more patches.

Cessna 182E nose gear repair

This is a common repair when a 182 leaves the runway for one reason or another.