Mooney Factory Tour

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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

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