The cowling was in pretty bad shape. When I bought the plane, it wasn’t even primed or cut to size. The fasteners were all pan

This wasn’t too bad. Even though it took me most of a day out at the airport. I think it was only about 4-5 hours

So this started off with first with getting all the parts together for the wheel pants and making them all fit and make sure they’re

This was another one of the FNP items that I wanted to fix. This actually only took me two days out at the hangar while

So I have been battling the never ending battle to be able to run normal CHT’s. It’s been really frustrating because I know these aren’t

So I flew the plane twice before I took her down for maintenance. Once I had the cowling off to replace the fuel pump, I

This one was a head scratcher for me. The wingtips were still in their white gelcoat and well the “Nav” lights and “strobes” were FNP.

I’m not really sure how to describe this section except that I fixed a bunch of stuff. I installed a new fuel pump, I took

Ted had originally put on this vinyl wrap on the wings. He was into it, I was not a fan of it. But at the

First things first, getting the N-number updated. I ordered some custom vinyl N-numbers from a small biz that I found on VAF (I think). They’re