Fuel Gauge Lighting

Fuel Gauge Lighting

UPDATE: Here is a link to these installed in the interior section. I’d previously bought green “Street GLow” LED light strips for my fuel gauge lighting, hooked to a Superior Panel dimmer, but now all of the rest of the interior lighting is in either blue or aviation white/blue so I’m changing these out as well. I’ve […]

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Instrument Panel Fresh Air Duct

Instrument Panel Fresh Air Duct

Here you can see we reconnected our panel vents. This is simply a 1.25″ T from Lowes that I sanded two sides of down for the smaller SCAT ducting.   For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim […]

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Builder Data Plate II (builder dataplate)

Builder Data Plate II (builder dataplate)

After we painted the airplane, and I saw this style dataplate on my buddy Mark Riley’s airplane, I had to upgrade to it. It’s a custom Velocity data plate, engraved with our information! I’ve added another view where hopefully you can read the entries. We set our gross weight to 3,100 lbs, though we don’t […]

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Builder Data Plate

Builder Data Plate

You’ve got to have a data plate installed to be legal to fly. Our first data plate came form Aircraft Spruce, though later we’d look to get a specialized plate.     For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim […]

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Forward Overhead Beam

Forward Overhead Beam

One option that we saw and really liked on the factory aircraft (the Dash-5) at Osh Kosh was the interior hand holds like on cars. We decided to go with the VW style like in our Jetta because the color match is perfect, and they have a really nice retraction action. The forward overhead beam […]

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Overhead Fresh Air Duct

Overhead Fresh Air Duct

After we flipped the plane for Fuel Strake completion in Chapter 9, we went ahead and fitted the overhead fresh air duct since it was convenient. Special Report – ROLLOVER. Next we fit the lights (from a late model Jetta) and eyeball vents. The beauty ring on the vents were too big so we trimmed them, […]

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