So the last few weeks have been pretty busy here in the hangar. I've been heavily involved in two Cessna 208B Grand Caravan inspections as well as keeping an eye over the progress of the leading edge repair on the Cessna 206 and keeping the ball rolling on finishing 5Y-BLG, the Cessna 210. This post is about the leading edge repair on the 206.
A couple of the guys got the Cessna leading edge and the Horton leading edge cuff installed, as well as the Vortex Generators. They did a pretty good job.
The next thing to do was to prep for painting it all.
Andrew Roberts (R, no relation to me) and John Holtz (L) doing the painting on the leading edge. It turned out pretty good.
What an action picture! My camera has goofy moments and this was one of them. Andrew (R) looks like he's moving his hand really fast with the paint gun.
Ahhh, the new registration number! I'm sure you all have been waiting patiently for this one. This is ex-N4790U. It was sort of a bittersweet moment, because the airplane had retained that registration since it was delivered to the customer in 1979. That's 31 years of the same number.
Here she is sitting just outside the hangar, looking good in the sunshine cloudy overcast Kenyan morning. We're waiting for some paperwork to go through the right channels, then we'll be doing a test flight and hopefully then she can be back on the flight line!
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