After installing the rear floors, I proceeded to rivet the baggage area floors. This includes the blind rivets that attach the floors to the ribs and the solid rivets and nutplates along the aft floor flanges and the tunnel. I… Read More »Baggage Floors Riveted
I riveted the rear floors into place. Solid rivets are used along the flanges. The rivets along the outboard side are pretty challenging to buck as it is very hard to get a hand down there and hold the bucking… Read More »Rear Floors Riveted
I’m going to rivet the rear floors into place prior to riveting the rear seat bases and baggage compartment floors. The plans have you rivet the aft part of the rear seat bases while working through the baggage area section,… Read More »Rear Floor Prep
While waiting for parts for my oxygen system to arrive (specifically the fill port which I plan to mount under the baggage compartment floor), I decided to start working on the panel. I first marked and trimmed the cutout areas.… Read More »Aerosport 310 Panel Fitting
The rear seat backs have been primed and riveted. Another section of the plans is complete!
I jumped ahead and fabricated the parts for the rear seat backs to take a break from thinking about systems. There are no punched holes in these parts so it was back to the basics of measuring, marking, and drilling… Read More »Rear Seat Backs
I modified the seat floors (as many others have done) to make it possible to remove the seat stop easily and remove the front seats by sliding them aft. This involves drilling holes for nutplates in the seat floors and… Read More »Seat Floor Mod
It is getting more challenging to track time as I am working on multiple sections of the plans concurrently. My Aerosport Carbon Fiber 310 panel arrived so I wanted to fit that up and get a better idea of what… Read More »Aerosport 310 Panel
I have mostly finalized how I plan to route conduit under the rear seats and baggage floors. I cut slots in the seat bases for routing conduit and antenna cables up into the side wall. I then prepped those parts… Read More »Baggage Floors and Seat Floors
