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2008
June
- Riveting right horizontal stabilizer and rear spar
- Riveting the left horizontal stabilizer
- Assembling and Riveting Left Horizontal Stabilizer
- Priming and assembling front spar
- Dimpling hs skin and priming ribs
- Dimpling and Countersinking hs skins and spars
- Match drilling horizontal stab spars and skins
- Assembling hs spars
- Received the Empennage kit
- Received Avery Toolkit
- Making Tables
July
- Finish rudder assembly, begin deburr
- Assembling rudder skeleton
- Finishing rudder skin stiffeners
- Making rudder skin stiffeners
- Riveting of rear spar on vertical stabilizer
- Riveting Vertical Stabilizer
- Priming, riveting Vertical Stablizer spars
- Deburring, dimpling, vertical stabilizer
- Deburring, dimpling rudder skeleton
- Assembling Vertical Stabilizer
- Horizontal Stab finished
August
- Riveting rudder skin
- Riveting attach angles
- Riveting rudder skeleton part 2
- Riveting rudder skeleton
- Drilling attach angles
September
- Riveting skin to spar
- Riveting skin stiffeners and spar
- Priming, riveting elevator
- Wing kit arrives
- Match drilling skins
- Assembling skeleton
- Primed left elevator stiffeners
- Primed right elevator stiffeners
- Skin and stiffener work
- Skin and stiffener work part 2
- Riveting rudder skin to spar
- Making elevator stiffeners
October
November
- Riveting rudder ribs
- Tech Counseler visit & Left Elevator riveting
- Assembling elevator skeleton
- Riveting elevator horn
- Riveting left elevator skeleton
December
2009
January
- Riveting trim tab hinge
- Assembling trim tab
- Riveting Trim tab
- Started Trim Tab
- Riveting right elevator trailing edge
February
March
April
- Riveting left wing ribs to spars
- Priming more ribs
- Priming ribs
- Finishing ribs
- Finished ribs, final drilling ribs to spars
- Rib deburring and fluting
- Rib deburring, etc, etc
- More Rib deburring
- Deburring ribs
- Assembling rear spar
- Drilling rear spar
- Installing tie-down
May
- Preparing parts for final assembly
- More tank assembly
- Tank attach angle
- Countersinking tank skin
- Fitting tank to wing
- Assembling right tank
- Assembling ribs in tank
- Drilling bottom wing skins, Starting tank
- Drilling top wing skins
- Building the wing jig
June
September
- Finish sealing the tank
- Riveting assembly to spar
- Riveting outer nose rib and skin assembly
- Cleaning and priming wing skins
- Dimpling left wing skins
- Catching up
October
- Rear spar assembly
- Installing tie-down bracket
- Installing nutplates on spar
- Wing stand
- Flap hinge angles
- Flap Hinges
- Aileron Hinges
- Riveting upper wing skin
- Landing light work
- Riveting upper skin
- Bolting on tank
November
December
- Assembling cap plates
- Tank hatch assembly and fuel vent line
- More Tank fab work
- Tank fab work
- More tank prep
- Countersink skin to baffle holes
- Drilling tank
- Assembling left tank
- Assembling leading edge
2010
January
February
March
- Installing aileron hinges
- Riveting upper wing skins
- Bolted tank to spar
- Riveting leading edge to spar
- Wing spar countersinking
- Priming parts
- Dimpling right wing skins
- Deburring and Dimpling
April
- Drilling skin holes
- Finishing right aileron
- Start assembling left flap
- Left flap leading edge ribs
- Riveting right aileron
- Riveting Skins and Stiffeners
- Priming skins and stiffeners
- Assembling Right Aileron
- Starting on right aileron
- Riveting left aileron
- Assembly of left aileron
- Riveting A-910 stiffeners to skins
- Assembly of aileron
- Assembling left spar
- Building aileron and flap table
- Drilling landing light lens
- Installing flap hinge angles
- Working on flap hinges
May
- Riveting flap lower skin part 2
- Riveting right flap
- Overhead shelf
- Inventory of Fuselage Kit
- Riveting right flap skeleton
- Riveting Right nose ribs
- Tech Counseler Visit
- Prepping Right Flap parts
- Riveting flap lower skin
- Riveting upper flap skin
- Riveting left flap skeleton
- Riveting left flap
- Painting left flap parts
- Drilling right flap
- Assembling right flap
June
- F-706 Bulkhead and catch-up
- F-705 Seat belt brackets
- Building brackets
- Control Column assembly
- Installing aileron bellcrank
- Fabbing pushrod tubes
- Riveting F-904 bulkhead
- Deburring, painting, Riveting firewall
- Deburring firewall parts
- Starting firewall
July
- Cutting longerons
- Riveting aft-bulkhead parts
- Cleaning and painting parts
- After Bulkhead parts
- Riveting F-706 bulkhead
August
- Trimming seat frames
- Riveting tailcone
- Priming and assembling
- Deburring, dimpling
- Alignment and final drilling
- Assembling tailcone for drilling
- Bending longerons
September
- Bending side skins
- Fitting forward side skins
- Floor skins and fitting tailcone and center section
- Finished riveting
- Riveting center section skin
- Fitting F-915 ribs
- Priming, started final assembly
- Finishing center section assembly and drilling
- Baggage rib work
- Assembling Center section
- Installing nutplates on seat ribs
October
- Floor Stiffeners
- Baggage compartment ribs
- Rudder pedal Work
- Riveting webs and starting rudder pedals
- Landing Gear web
- Lower Longeron, web, Gusset
- Gusset work
- Left Lower Longeron
- Longeron work forward of F-904 bulkhead
- Drilling longerons
November
December
2011
April
- Fitting WD-657 steps
- Bellcrank work
- Drilling upper skins
- Fitting upper skins
- Riveting side rails
- Forward gussets and canopy rails
- Riveting aft deck
- Aft deck shims
- Drilling aft deck
- Leveling fuselage
May
- Finishing seat backs
- Seat backs
- Bulkhead covers
- Left Brake Pedals
- Finishing steps
- Adjusting W-918 aileron pushrods
June
- Installing Baggage Bulkhead Fasteners
- Baggage Bulkhead
- Putting in Seat Floors
- Fabbing and Drilling seat hinges
- Shimming nutplate for Baggage Compartment
- Riveting baggage compartment floors
- Fuselage Gussets
July
- Finish drilling MLG mounts
- Drilling Main Landing Gear Weldment
- Main Gear Weldments
- Flap Motor Housing
- Flap Motor Mount
- Flap Weldment fitting
- Fuel Valve Housing
- Heat Baffle
- Aileron Trim Bracket
- Drilling flap actuator
- Painting floor panels
- Installing Brake Pedals
- Assembling Brake Pedals
- Installing Seat Belt Brackets
- Seatbelt brackets
- F-741 Cover
2012
October
2013
February
2020
March
April
May
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 5
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 4
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 3
June
July
August
September
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 12
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 11
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 10
October
November
December
2021
January
April
November
2022
July
August
- Navigator Dinghy build progress part 19
- Pixel Qi Display Frame
- Chart Plotter Hat Software
- Chart Plotter Hat