Aileron Cockpit Hangar 
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 5, 2025
Though not quite finished, she is on display, warm and cared for in the museums hangar. “We were able to trade the oil coolers and exhausts to Chuck Whal for non-airworthy parts and ailerons.” The cockpit in 2015. From the cockpit back to the tail, 92460 is looking the part with the new painted control surfaces.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 3, 2024
The front control column and aileron drum have been fitted. The aileron cables are in. MJ444’s front cockpit showing the Spitfire’s distinctive control column. The rear face of MJ444’s front cockpit instrument panel. We plan to carry this out around the 20th of April.
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Plane and Pilot
MARCH 25, 2025
She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. I had a total knee replacement. Then the CFI gave me a few unusual attitudes, and all was well.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 6, 2024
In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.
Fear of Landing
OCTOBER 4, 2024
He went to the hangar and did a pre-flight walkaround of the 172, including checking the fuel. Satisfied, he pulled the 172 out of the hangar and started the engine. He briefed the pilot on the cockpit instruments and best speeds for take-off, climb and glide. They were finally good to go. They accelerated along the runway.
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