Working on the instrument panel, making sure I have everything I need. Some of the instruments are pretty old and have radium painted dials. Those will need to be replaced. This isn’t the final layout , just to see what I have and what I need.

One nice find is the original tachometer for the airplane which shows the engine time. With no aircraft logbooks this gives me the total time on the aircraft. I need this to start new logbooks. Last recorded aircraft time with the FAA was 600 hours in 1961. The tach shows 996.5, which means Fritz put on about 400 hours of flight time.

The panel will be painted Stinson Maroon.

The original instrument panel configuration. This one had the top panel labeled #28.

The instrument panel with the overlay.

Photo with a flash

The back side of the instrument panel.  

The instrument panel without the overlay.