JPG/GIF Still Photos |
Welding the steel cockpit cage
|
Note to M20A owners: This is one of the original buildings. Those marks on the floor are old 1960 vintage glue drips from where the wooden wings used to be assembled
|
Upholstery shop - At left a door being padded and upholstered
|
Electrical assembly area
|
Wiring harness test equipment
|
Airfoil leading edge formers
|
Two story tall press
|
IMG_1595a.jpg
|
IMG_1595b.jpg
|
IMG_1595c.jpg
|
IMG_1595d.jpg
|
Parts before and after press
|
The press used to create those parts
|
Hammer press, and in foreground, a just pressed part showing how much excess must be cut off after pressing
|
Paint area with parts of a just-painted composite cowl
|
Final assembly hall
|
Wing being assembled
|
IMG_1601a.jpg
|
Wing in the jig during assembly
|
IMG_1602a.jpg
|
Assembled wing can now be rolled over to where the fuselage is waiting
|
Assembled wing can now be rolled over to where the fuselage is waiting
|
Parts of the empennage being assembled
|
This is the whole cockpit - steel cage - on a rotisserie
|
Aft fuselage sections being skinned
|
Cockpit underside being assembled
|
Fuselage assembly
|
Firewall
|
Wing attach cutout
|
Interior showing steel cage
|
Interior showing steel cage
|
Interior showing steel cage
|
Interior showing steel cage
|
Four airplanes progressively farther along in the assembly process as they head toward the door
|
The famous pivoting Mooney tail - fuselage hinge section
|
The famous pivoting Mooney tail - fuselage hinge section
|
The famous pivoting Mooney tail - tail section
|
Last few steps on assembly line. About ready to attach the tail.
|
Just about ready to have the engine mounted
|
This is how much engine you can buy with about $40,000
|
This is how much engine you can buy with about $40,000
|
Very last steps before roll-out: engine mounted, wingtips added, interior installed, glass installed, etc. Technician is setting the rudder limits.
|
Aircraft are test-flown unpainted until all QC is completed
|
Final QC and squawk fixing
|
zIMG_1588a.jpg
|
Final QC of aircraft ready for delivery
|
This airplane is in primer pending the paint scheme decision by the customer
|
A new Ovation
|
Interior with Garmin G1000 glass cockpit
|
Another new Ovation
|
New Acclaim N311TN being test-flown without paint
|
This half of the hangar is the Factory Service Center
|