Fabricated and tacked in place front landing legs.

 Fabricated landing gear leg fittings and pivot bushings.

 

 Moved and fixtured fuselage on work bench to prepare for landing gear fabrication.

 Welded strut mounts in place.

 Finished welding fittings for gear legs. Fabricated center strut mounts.

 Welded fittings for landing gear legs.

 Welded landing gear clusters.

Tacked landing gear brackets in place on fuselage.

 Continued fabricating landing gear brackets.

 Fabricated brackets for landing gear.

Started  welding fuselage clusters. Finished on 2-23.

Welded tail post and tail wheel receiver.

 

Removed fuselage from table and placed it on rotisserie.

 Fabricated and installed tubes supporting firewall.

  Fabricated and installed left side tubes above front door opening.

 Fabricated and installed left side tubes above front door opening.

 

Welded additional tacks on all vertical fuselage tubes. Removed wooden support structure.

 Fabricated engine fire wall mount tubes, tacked in place . Installed fire wall cross tubes.

 Tacked in place tubes from B to Q.

 

Fitted and tacked in place cross tubes below doors.

 Fitted and tacked in place cross bracing above and below cargo door.

 Tacked in place cross tubes at stations N,M &L.

 Fabricated and tacked in place station S.

 Fabricated and tacked into fuselage lower door frames.

 Fabricated and tacked in place remaining cross braces in rear of fuselage.