A typical day…
Peter Killin visited with the 206
Seaplanes West 182 Float Kit
PBJ
Just back from the engine shop
The Captain Brian Barker Air Cadet Squadron 363 of Campbell River came for a tour last night. John and Bob showed them around the airport hangar. Everyone is talking about how impressed they are with this squadron this year. The Boss Beaver is a visitor, a refugee from Vancouver. We have several planes temporarily based in Campbell River to escape the Olympic Games no-fly zone.
The best Air Cadets in Canada
Sometimes I think these pictures are a little intimate, a little bit like those pictures of plastic surgery you see on TV. Although I prefer to think of FKL all painted up and flying, here’s what she looks like right now while we install the Cabin Kit and Alaska Door.
FKL undergoing surgery
We’ve been featuring Beavers on our Blog, but there are a lot more than Beaver’s in the hangar. Right now, along with all the Beavers we are working on a few Cessnas, a Wilga from England, the Yak 52, a Bushmaster and a Navajo. The Navajo had a gear-up landing so needs a little belly work:
Navajo Belly
We’re working on both ends:
That’s Miquel inspecting the power plant.
VH-IDO has the dash painted
PBJ Dash is coming together
PBJ: painstaking work
It doesn’t look any different…
We have 14,400 square feet inside the hangar at the airport and there’s never enough room!
Greg and Emily spent Valentine’s Day moving stuff around so that we have space to work. This is a “before” picture of the front of the hangar.
Last week we worked on installing the Cabin Extension Kit.
Bob took some pictures of Serial # 1613, C-FPBJ. PBJ should be flying green by the end of the month…