This is once again a relatively short building session and small update since I worked on the plane at night after a long work day. The most exciting thing I think I accomplished was finishing the ...

Relatively small update today. I just went back along the leading edge of the wing and installed rivets in all of the holes Craig and I drilled yesterday. This went pretty smoothly except for the f...

Craig came by today and helped me drill the remaining rivet holes for the leading edge skins - those into the rear side of the spar cap. This was done per section 501 and works well as a two person...

Today I worked on finishing the landing light housing install per section 511 of the manual. I started by removing the clamps and ensuring that the bottom edge of the housing was well bonded to the...

Today I finished the installation of the leading edge skins in the left wing per section 491 of the manual. This just involved installing the bottom row of rivets although this was a bit of a chall...

Today I installed the window latch doubler in the left wing per section 49 of the manual1. This had to be done before the bottom row of rivets can be installed for the first leading edge skin and r...

Craig came by again today to help me and together we match drilled all of the holes for the fuel tank extension skin into the rear spar. Once again, we used the drilling jig for this so, other than...

Very short update today. I just worked briefly in order to mark the positions of the holes to be match drilled through the leading edge skin and the back side of the front spar cap. I am waiting to...

After a bit of a mixup (I accidentally ordered the leading edge skin for the standard range wing instead of the extended range), I finally have the replacement leading edge skin and some time to wo...

Today my grandfather and I continued working on the leading edge skins for the left wing and finished the rest of the rivets in the 3 most outboard skins. We weren’t able to do any more than this b...