Inspections, avionics, and a whole lot more...

This has been a busy week here at AIM AIR.  We have the DC-3T in for its avionics work as well as other inspection/maintenance, 2 Cessna 206s for inspection/maintenance, a Caravan for inspection/maintenance, another 206 which came Friday for inspection/maintenance, and then the three "projects" that are currently in progress.  Wow.  We've been spread out pretty thin, but are still getting the work done on time...great job to the guys in the hangar!  Below are some photos of the week.  

This rainbow appeared last Friday, I think.  It was a beautiful sight to see.  

I caught the King Air 200 coming in on final approach...

...so I figured I would snap a few photos.  It really is a good looking plane.

Touchdown, with the Mombasa Highway stretch of Nairobi in the background.

Jeremy Hamilton gave a hand to David Marwa, our avionics technician, with some work on 5Y-CMA.

David has really been doing a great job getting all the wiring taken care of on CMA.  Here he is getting the GPU plug attached and wired in.

An interesting shot of 5Y-CMA, with Jeremy working on some things in the cockpit for Marwa.

It's progressing!  Still lots of spaghetti, but that's to be expected for a little bit.  It's going to be another week or so until we can go back to working on CMA...there are other more pressing tasks at hand now...

...like doing inspections!  Jeremy removed the fuel reservoir tanks from 5Y-SIL and cleaned them.  These "kidney tanks" are where the main fuel tanks dump fuel to be a last holding point before the fuel passes through the fuel selector and then into the engine plumbing.  They don't often get cleaned out, but these tanks sure needed it.  We cleaned out all sorts of dirt and yucky stuff.  Safety first!

Garrett Watson (L) and Reini Schmidt (R) opening up some inspection panels on 2EA.  Garrett has been here for 2 weeks working in the shop and learning about mission aviation.

Currently we are working on N342EA, which is typically based in Entebbe, Uganda.

We have #4 and #6 cylinders off because of sticky exhaust valves.  You can see the DC-3T in the background with the avionics guy working in the nose.

Garrett and Mzee Kituo cleaning the cylinders from 2EA.

Mzee was teaching Garrett what needs to be accomplished when cleaning cylinders and repairing the valves.  The cylinders are now ready and will be installed on Monday.

Cleaning corrosion!  Everybody's favorite!