It's Finished

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=31.25% BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>NC19143 </B></FONT>|     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fairchild Rrestoration"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>I'm going to call it finished.</B></div> <div> <B>The project is never really completed as long as you can nit pick it and find some thing to do, and I've a couple things left to do.</B></div> <div> <B>Build and install an airbox and intake system for the engine air intake with filter.</B></div> <div> <B>Install seat belts, make the leather boots that go around the controls at the floor.</B></div> <div> <B>and finish trimming the interior, and build a rear seat.</B></div> <div> <B>Some will get completed before I fly. others will wait.</B></div> <div> <B>I would like to take this space acknowledge those who made this project possible.</B></div> <div> <B>First and foremost, the wife who made the money happen, she didn't complain, (well not too much). as we spent the money to make this happen, plus all the time I spent in the hangar, or the many times I asked her for help.  She was the one who often told me to get off this computer and go build some thing.</B></div> <div> <B>She never complained about her car setting outside 2 years while the aircraft spent the time in the garage.</B></div> <div> <B>And all the trips to bring stuff to the hangar that I forgot to take from home when I went to work on the F-24 at the airport.</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks Barb.</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B> ! </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Seats by Stich, Jack Pardue did the seats, Great job.</B></div> <div> <B>Air-Tech inc. for a good products for the covering system.</B></div> <div> <B>Flounder Bay Boat Shop, for letting me sort their lumber piles for aircraft quality lumber.</B></div> <div> <B>Allen Holloway, for the cylinder work. </B></div> <div> <B>"Al"  at Savage mag, for the great job and all the help setting up the timing on the Warner.</B></div> <div> <B>AirParts Inc. for all the sheet metal that was used to fabricate the skins,  great folks to deal with. </B></div> <div> <B>Aircraft Spruce and Specialty, for all the stuff they supplied. </B></div> <div> <B>Avlite Aviation   http://www.avliteaviation.com/  For the great job on my landing light.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d480e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The local ACE hardware store for all the non aviation stuff it requires to do these projects like sand paper, acetone, masking supplies, drills, dremmel tools. wood refinishing chemicals, varnish. Stuff you never think of until you need them.</B></div> <div> <B>And of course my on line friends who put up with the endless up-dates, but always offered encouragement.</B></div> <div> <B>It requires a multitude of folks behind the scenes to make a project like this </B></div> <div> <B>Go From this</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04280e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>to this </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cf80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B> I will continue to update the page with Pictures and videos as they occure, but for the most part this is :</B></div> <div> <B>                                                   </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B> The End</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>