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…

Looking forward to her new look.

 We are preparing the instrument panel for paint and the tie bar has to be replaced. 

Starting on the Cabin Extension Kit:

Jim is one of our maintenance guys. He’s talented, boisterous and our best hamburger cook. One morning last fall, Jim decided to free up a sticky castor on a moveable workbench.  He flipped the bench over and pulled out one of the castors.  The next one was a little tight, so he tapped it with a hammer.  A small bit of something flew off the castor and imbedded itself in his eye.  It’s 4 months and many operations later and Jim is still unable to see out of that eye.  The prognosis isn’t good.  He will have to have a cornea transplant after his eye heals some more. He has been off work ever since the accident.  His wife has had to take days off to drive him to specialists in Comox, Victoria and Vancouver.

The crazy thing is, Jim had taken to almost always wearing safety glasses.  It’s the “almost” that has cost him most of the sight in one eye.

We’ve changed the rules. Instead of asking everyone to wear safety glasses whenever appropriate, it’s now mandatory for anyone in the hangars to wear safety glasses. That includes delivery people and customers. And everyone is co-operating. Even the grumpy FedEx guy bought yellow tinted glasses that make everything look sunny. We miss you Jimmy!