Some pictures of this week

We're getting ever so close to taking N827DG on her first test flight. We are finishing some minor squawks this week and closing things up so that we can prepare for the test flight, which will most likely happen sometime the beginning of next week. Keep your eyes open for pictures of flight!



Spaghetti! This is part of the electrical side of the engine monitor system. Looks more like automotive wiring than aircraft with all the colored wires.

Lookin' cool in my shades...sunny days are always nice and warm to work right at the hangar door where everything is so bright you can't see anything.

Fuel! Filling the tip tanks for fuel tests.

Pretty panel. This is the pre-placard instrument panel. Beautiful...

Ready to roar...can't wait.

These past few days...

We're getting closer and closer. While waiting for some parts to come in to finish some things, we are working on lots of other things so that we can hopefully soon start being able to run the engine, fly, etc.

Sorry this is sort of a boring post...we did get some good things done. Roy finished installing and rigging the flaps in less than a week, which is apparently an amazing feat here at AIM AIR. We did a lot of small things here and there that needed to get done. There was a lot of maintenance on the rest of the fleet, so 7DG got a little bit neglected by everyone else but me and Roy.

Anyway, here's some pictures.


A new AIM AIR logo on the tail. Soon enough it will have it's temporary registration, too.

This is a new style exhaust that a friend brought by. We are planning on buying them for the fleet, and this was a cool opportunity to see what it looks like. Definitely a different stack than the regular exhaust. 10-15 horsepower increase...

Radios and some gauges. The one right above the yoke is the new engine monitoring system. It will give the pilot Cylinder Head Temps, Exhaust Gas Temps, Oil Pressure, Fuel Flow, and Volts/Amps. Nice.

Here's a good side profile. New cargo pod, wings on, engine pretty much ready, prop on...This thing is itching to go.

Not much longer...

Past week...

Sorry I haven't posted for the last week or so...things have been busy. All last week I was in PT6A training class with some of my peers, which was a lot of fun. I've done a lot of work in the past on PT6s, but it was nice to have the formal training to either confirm what I was taught, or to help me understand something that I wasn't too sure about. I really enjoyed it, even though sometimes it was hard staying awake in class. :) Since I left seminary last December, this has been the longest stretch in my life where I haven't been in school. Crazy.

Anyway, the guys carried on work on 7DG while we were in class, and this week, I'm back on the floor, so more pictures will come. Below are a couple pictures from last week.

Here's the PT6 that we worked on for the class.

Adamson and Isaac concentrating in PT6 class.


One afternoon I peeped out the window down at 7DG, and caught the guys putting the prop on.