Work progresses on the fuselage as wings are looking good out at Big Sky Stearman.Continue Reading

An Englishman living in New Guinea was curious about the supercharger in a P-47 so he torched off the left wing and had 42-27609 rolled on her back. Then he hacked her belly open to look at the supercharger. Photo courtesy of Charles Darby, Pacific Wrecks and Where to Find Them , taken  circa 1972Continue Reading

                                                                                 It’s great to see progress on the wings for the Bush Stearman.  Continue Reading

January 1943                                                                                                                                                                               February, 1943                                                                                                                 It must have been brutal to fly an open cockpit Stearman on a Minnesota  winter day.Continue Reading

Wing hardware is being painted and nearing completion.  Work begins and firewall forward and continues on fuselage hardware.Continue Reading

More work done on the engine mount and the start of fitting cowling pieces.  Also the skins are being riveted on to the tailcone and the frames are assembled for the dog house and other lower end structure.Continue Reading

Here are some photos of where we are with the restoration of the P-51C Lope’s Hope III.  The fuselage structure is coming together very quickly with over a year preparing the project by purchasing and fabricating parts before starting assembly.Continue Reading