Wednesday, December 12, 2007

It's here!

My Searey has finally arrived all packed up nicely in its crate with no transport damage...





I will be building it in my garage (or more professionally my ACF - Aircraft Consruction Facility) over the next 12 months. Although the manufacturer estimates a 500 hour build time I expect to take much longer.




The first step is setting up the ACF by painting the floor, fit workbenches and storing the various parts away from insects and animals (I live on the beach near rainforest so have to watch out for various animals and salt air) then its onto corrosion proofing the various alloy tubes before assembly.






Almost ready to fly!

2 comments:

Andy said...

Way to go, Paul!

I'm a newbie at Searey ownership; but, I DO know these are the best owners in all of aviation for support and encouragement.

As with all of them, I'm here to assist, if I can be of service.

edutain1 said...

Hi Paul, very sorry about Chloe, we empathize, we bought our cat back from Japan at unreasonable cost...

The blog is great. Make the undercarriage bullet proof by all means.

Ian