Final Assembly Progress

I've been burning hot on the project since the hangar move last week.  Over the course of 7 days I've been able to rack up 32 hours of solid progress towards completion. The airport is a good 25 minutes drive which forces me to be more organized on my work session planning. Because the plane, tools and parts are no longer collocated in my garage, I've been taking things back and forth.  At this moment I have the wing tips, landing & nav lights as well as a trimmed, fitted empennage fairing all ready for some finalization.  I'm going to save that for later this week when the weather gets below 40. My garage is insulated, my hangar is not making the garage the preferred cold weather activity spot.

Over the last 7 days I've taken a ground zero approach and started moving through the plans per section ensuring items have been completed.  As mentioned last entry I had already noticed some things that I didn't do for whatever reason.  I worked all the way through the empennage section through attaching the fairing.  I wasn't happy with the fit and trimmed a bit too much off in some places so now I have some fiberglass work to do along with some nut plates and that section will be 100% complete.

With the wings everything checked out and the only pending items are around the AeroLED light installations. I had modified the wing tip just over two years ago.  So once I complete the homework of installing those, the wings will also be done.

Onto the fuselage there really wasn't anything that I hadn't already done in the garage for most the sections. In the second to last section the only outstanding item involves riveting the forward tail cone top skin.  This is still pending some Air Conditioning items so that's on the side burner and will more than likely be one of the last items completed. The last section however is also the most exciting item of this update involving attachment of the wings. I didn't struggle with this as much as I thought I would, having at least another set of helping hands is a huge benefit. It really deserves it's own log update so once I'm finished up I'll post more later.  I have just a handful of steps left, mostly around nut plate installations.

Once I wrap up the above, my plan is to go through both the finishing and firewall forward sections.  As with above it's to ensure completeness and that I hadn't inadvertently missed anything.  Just flipping through them though there's little if anything that I'll need to do.  Then the focus will be purely on finishing non-structural items in preparation for inspection.