It's in Florida!

Today, the container with our Phoenix arrived at the dealer's (Jim Lee) hangar at the airport in Melbourne, FL. Here's the fuselage (click to enlarge):

And here are the wings (left), long (7') wing tips (center right), and the horizontal stabilizer (right); in the background, someone else's bits.

 

"It's like babies, they all look the same", you say? Well, yeah, but they look "different same" to their parents, right? 

The major work for a week or two will be at the avionics shop, installing the "glass panel", other instruments, auxiliary battery, and  the strobe, position, and landing lights required for night flying. When Jim gets it back, he'll install the oxygen system, check out all the systems, flight test it, have it inspected, and get it registered with the FAA. When we get there, he hands me the keys, we jump in, and fly off into the sunset - after about four days of flight and maintenance training.

For a look at what's in the cockpit and  on the panel, visit an earlier posting on the Phoenix cockpit (or scroll down three postings).