Entire Build Index
- Fuselage
- Prep for First Flight
- Received the Seats and Interior!
- Loose Ends...and Oshkosh!!!
- Repaired Armrest
- Panel and Final(?) Wiring Prep
- Connecting Wing Wiring
- ELT and Fuselage Work
- Avionics and Wiring
- Avionics and Wiring (again)
- Pitch Autopilot Servo Bracket
- Antennas
- Tail Wiring
- Throttle Quadrant Installed
- Throttle Cable
- Started center section cover
- Installed headset jacks
- Cockpit Air Vent Brackets
- Forward skin installed
- Canopy and windshield work
- Preparing to trim the canopy
- Drilled wing aft spars
- Drilled horizontal stabilizer
- Painted Sub-Panel assembly
- Continued slider canopy frame fitting
- Started fitting canopy frame
- Finished roll bar drilling
- Drilled windshield roll bar
- Started windshield roll bar
- Started aileron trim
- Replaced brake lines in cockpit
- Continued rudder/brake pedal install
- Started rudder/brake pedal install
- Installed F789 elevator pushrod
- Installed elevator bellcrank
- Worked on fuel selector valve
- Sub-panel and throttle quadrant
- Made and installed fuel vent tubes
- Some small fuselage stuff
- Installed top skins
- Finished static port installation
- Continued sub-panel structure prep
- Continued sub-panel
- Started sub-panel structure
- Finished static port mods
- Static port engineering
- Aft top skin prep
- Assembled elevator control rods
- Installed air vent scoops and static ports
- Finished rudder cables
- Started installing rudder cables
- Started elevator rods
- Installed F787 web
- Orders and deliveries...
- Started static ports
- Miscellaneous assembly and prep
- Finished flap mechanism
- Prepped flap mechanism parts
- Continued center covers
- Started flap mechanism
- Started center covers
- Finished seats
- Continued seatbacks
- Continued seat pans and other cockpit items
- Started seat attach hinges on seat pans
- Fitted F749 baggage compartment side panels
- Finished baggage compartment bulkhead
- Baggage compartment floors and bulkhead
- Various aft fuselage chores
- Finished canopy decks and gussets
- Canopy decks and skins
- Fitted canopy decks and gussets
- Fuselage off sawhorses
- Rolled the canoe!!!
- Finished fuselage canoe riveting
- Finished armrests
- Fuselage tasks
- Continued riveting fuselage
- Fuselage minor setback
- Continued fuselage assembly, Part 2
- Continued fuselage assembly
- Started fuselage assembly
- Painted fuselage parts
- More fuselage prep
- Fuselage deburring and countersinking
- Fuselage parts prep
- Started cleaning and prepping parts
- Reinforced armrests
- Disassembled fuselage
- Fuselage to-do list
- Drilled baggage compartment bulkheads
- Drilled floor stiffeners
- Made rudder pedal center support
- Continued rudder pedals
- Started rudder and brake pedals
- Finished tank attach brackets
- Continued lower longerons and F684 gussets
- Started F717 Longerons
- Drilled fwd fuselage angles
- Fitted firewall
- F770 side skin drilling
- Drilled longerons, Part 2
- Drilled longerons, Part 1
- Made left side conical bend
- Made right conical bend
- Installed left side skin and drilled armrests
- Clecoed left forward side skin, and EAA visit
- First fuselage join
- Continued work on center fuselage
- Riveted center section skin
- Assembled elevator bellcrank
- Continued center fuselage assembly
- Started assembly of center fuselage
- Got my seat belt/harnesses yesterday
- Prepping parts for center fuselage assembly
- Finished riveting aft fuselage
- Riveted right side of aft fuselage
- Worked on tailwheel mount
- Aft fuselage riveting
- Riveted aft fuselage belly
- Prepping aft fuselage for assembly
- Aft fuselage prep and paint
- Drilled skins and removed
- Drilled J-stringers
- Trimmed forward ends of J-stringers
- Longeron bending and J-stringer trims
- Started primary assembly of aft fuselage
- Fitted tailwheel spring bracket
- Prepped center fuselage parts
- Center fuselage continues
- Continued work on fuselage center section
- Drilled crotch belt brackets
- Made attach straps for corner ribs
- Drilling center fuselage belly skin
- Started center fuselage
- F-706 bulkhead work
- Assembled aft fuselage bulkheads
- Primed aft fuselage bulkheads
- Cleaning aft fuselage bulkheads
- Started remaining aft fuselage bulkheads
- Started aft fuselage bulkheads
- Completed F705 Bulkhead
- Painting F705 Bulkhead parts
- F705 Bulkhead
- Started F705 bulkhead
- Finished F704 bulkheads
- Center fuselage bulkhead work
- Started center fuselage
- Firewall done!
- Painted firewall parts
- Firewall fastener holes
- Made firewall doublers
- Drilled more firewall parts
- Continued Firewall parts
- Started Firewall F-601J angles
- Finished Inventory
- Fuselage is here!
- Fuselage ordered!