For aircraft with an experimental certificate operating as exhibition aircraft, amateur-built aircraft, or light-sport aircraft, and with a maximum cruising speed not exceeding 180 knots calibrated airspeed (CAS), the N-numbers may be reduced to a minimum height of 3 inches.
We’ve been working on installing the Hull SIde Rail – Section 47.1 in the 2018 docs. Worked 3.5 hours on 9/8/22.
Today we installed the keel guard on the bottom of the hull. We thought it would be easier to do this without the fuselage in the hull. We ordered the 8 foot Megaware Keelguard in white for $158. We marked where the edges with masking tape, roughed up the surface with a scotchbrite pad, applied … Read more
Our hull was finished being painted so we transported it home.Total cost for getting the hull painted was $3K.This involved a lot of labor as the hull needed a lot of filler work per the painter. This is the paint we used
Today we took a look at the megahatch we ordered from Recreational Mobility and we worked on the gas tank. We pressure tested the tank with water and some lime had built up on this tube. Must have been some type of galvanic corrosion that attracted the lime? Anyway, we needed to descale it so … Read more