Photo Gallery

Here are a few of our projects, customer airplanes and interesting things we have found. 

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If they don't have a V-tail, then I guess they don't need any tail....!

Mike finishes the landing gear portion of a pre-purchase inspection on the road.

A Cessna 206 that had her cargo door pop open in flight is ready to be picked up. 

1946 Piper J3C65.

 

Beech Bonanza ready to fly after a bird strike.

1971 Cessna 177RG Cardinal.

A very happy customer ready to fly with his newly upgraded engine and new EDM-930.

Sometimes we just have to go get them.

2002 Baron 58.

Sometimes they get trucked out, also. (See project Part 1 and Part 2.)

1999 Mooney M20M, after hail repair.

This Beech Debonair is showing off her newly installed Nav antennas.

1966 Beech V35, all control surfaces repaired.

Local man wins Bronze Biplane at Reno, 2004.

A Beech H35 Bonanza all spruced up.

1969 Beech V35A, right wing skins replaced.

Beech Bonanza speed brakes may not look imposing, but they get the job done!

Beech Debonair elevator repair.

Polished twin Bonanza with new windows and speed slope windshield.

1961 Beech N35 Bonanza, new side windows.

New wing tip tanks for a Beech Debonair.

Big or small, we work on them all!

This Beech J35 Bonanza received a new windshield and the panel was spruced up.

D'Shannon Tip Tank and window installation, 1974 Beech V35B.

A Beech G35 Bonanza gets new cooling for it's new turbos.

1994 Beech/Tradewinds A36, new D'Shannon windshield.

Cessna 337 instrument panel gets a fresh new look.

1990 Beech F33A, D’Shannon Tip Tanks.

1950 Beech B35 Bonanza.

1969 Cessna 150J.

 

AVSTAR’s first corporate aircraft, 1967 Cessna 150G.

1966 Beech V35, D’Shannon 550, baffles, tip tanks.

1982 Beech C24R brought in after a gear-up.

A Beech C23 Sundowner get a new leading edge.

Oops!

1968 Beech D-55 Baron.

“This rivet is made wrong”  “No it isn’t, it’s for the top skin!”

1950 Beech B35 needed skins.

Beech H35 gets an inboard upper wing skin.

The “easy” way to work behind the instrument panel.

Cessna T337H Skymaster and Cessna 175.

“Low - rid - er”, a 1967 Bellanca Viking we picked up and put back together.

A Beech S35 that we ironed a few wrinkles out of.

Some of the silly things we have found...

        And you thought it wouldn't leak? 

This is how it is supposed to be done:  

Continental injector screen packed with lint.

Kind of hard to crank the gear down...

A wrench found inside the aileron cove.

Notice how nicely UPS aimed for the fragile mark...

Not the way to secure the tab hinge pin on an early ruddervator.

Edge distance - what we took out, and what we put in.

When tightening up a cylinder, watch the push rod shrouds...

Interesting addition to a ruddervator counterweight.