Somewhere in Lancashire

This is my site for the building of the Europa Trigear #348

If you are interested then read on!

The Europa started in 1999 to date 2008

• Firstly I must say that Colin Way started the aircraft, he had constructed a fair bit of the fuselage.
• I decided to take up the project from these photos……………

• After some hesitation in 2005 we purchased the part-finished project.
• I started by reading all the manuals, and made a working set and a reference set.
• Started to mess about glue’s and resin’s and attempted to fill the flight surfaces.
• I sorted through the entire boxes and made a stores list.
• Then I sorted some of the nuts bolts brackets into sub kits, and started sanding down my filling.
• Such as the oil tank, made the bracket got the relevant bolts out and ready to fit
• Check out the engine

• Put together the doors and hinges and fitted, then cut and fitted the windows, and did more sanding.

• The tail tip was missing, and a number of bolts, fitted the antenna and resin up the tailstock and tip.

• Started to run in some wiring for strobe and antenna, and did some sanding.
• Decided after great recommendation by most that I spoke to, to change it to a Trigear.
• Took off the mono bits and bob’s

From this to this

• Read the destructions and commenced cutting and pasting the legs and nose wheel to the airframe. Note the nose wheel spring modification

• Done the wiring again and more sanding.
• The aircraft is looking better now standing on its own 3 feet with the windows all masked off.
• Lot’s of filling still to do. Sit in the garage perusing over the instrument panel with paper dials.
• Picked up analogue instruments and some electrical bits spent many evenings filing and fitting the bits as they arrived.

• Met Nigel Jones the Inspector for the first time ….no problem’s carry on!

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