We tried the wings on for fit this morning. Sure does cause a stir in the neighborhood when there’s an airplane in the driveway.

They fit fine with no issues and after 50+ years they were back on the airplane, even if only for a short time.

Now I get to take off the old fabric and put on new.

Wanted to remove the bird stuff and 40+ years of dirt. They actually look really good under all the dirt. It’s too bad I have to remove the old fabric.

Probably the closest they’ve been in over 50 years. I will be mounting them in the airframe this weekend to make sure everything lines up so I will get lots of photos of them together again.

I brought the wings home on Sunday. It took a village, or family to get them down and load them. Well, it only took two people to actually load them but a bunch to get them down from the ceiling of the building after hanging there for 40 years.

I had some difficulty getting the circles around the instrument panel to be circles. Taping off with blue tape didn’t give me a “perfect” circle as you can see in some of my previous photos. So I designed some paint plugs to fit in snugly in the holes so I could paint them. I used my 3D printer to make enough to blank out the holes. I think it looks much better.

Have to make sure you have the correct nut behind the wheel.

I didn’t have the originals so I wasn’t sure if the correct size. It’s not listed in the parts manual or service manual. They are 3/8”-20 if anyone is interested.

Finishing up the details of the wiring.

You should use type B screws with tinnerman nuts, not type A.

These hold the bottom portion of the instrument panel to the frame.

Hard to see, but lots getting done. Most of it small items of tidying up areas and detailing wire runs. Things I can do before getting the wings up here.