Interior Door Cover, Part I

Interior Door Cover, Part I

The door cover panels are pre-molded by the factory. There’s a hump where the door handle comes through, but figuring out where exactly was a bit challenging, so I ended up needing to close up my first hole a bit. Also, stealing an idea from my buddy Andy, I used left-over foam with a light BID […]

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Door Locks and Latches

Door Locks and Latches

The door lock that we used is from Aircraft Spruce, and allows us to use the same lock for the fuel caps and the pilot’s side door. The bezel of the lock was filed down so that the lock mechanism just protruded through the skin of the door. The hole was drilled just above the strake […]

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Finish Installing the Beams

This section was primarily finished as part of the fast-build fuselage, however we did glass the front of the strake forward face with 2 BID, and layup 4 Uni plys onto the carbon beam and inside to the back wall of the strake forward face.

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Install Door Gas Springs

Install Door Gas Springs

The gas springs are surprisingly easy to install. First you drill and tap a couple of thin hardpoints, and flox and BID them onto the carbon beams about 14″ up from the door pin. Once cured, the BID and the beam are drilled through were the spring ball will screw into the hard point, and […]

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Pilot Door Security Lock

Pilot Door Security Lock

The Pilot door security lock was completed as part of the fast build fuselage option at the factory. However, we decided to install our door switches on the security lock, this way we will know not only that the doors are closed and latched, BUT ALSO that the security latch is engaged. We chose this […]

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Installing Leading Edge of Strake to Door

Installing Leading Edge of Strake to Door

This is a fairly straight-forward section where you glass the strake leading edge pieces to the doors, so that the match up with the strakes and have tongue-depressor gap for door operation. However, we did notice on the new factory aircraft (Dash-5) they had installed these fingerwells on the doors, to help in pulling the […]

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