GALLERY

Coventry restoration work

  • Pressure washing the centre section
  • The centre section stood on its end ready for work to begin
  • The fuselage and tail section in the hangar
  • Two overhauled Pratt and Whitney 1830s
  • Finally some green etch primer on the fuselage
  • Primer going on to the fuselage
  • The fuselage after the primer application
  • Hours and hours of work has gone in to repairing the centre section, mainly corrosion
  • Preparing the centre section to be reunited with the fuselage
  • Lifting the centre section
  • The centre section and fuselage reunited
  • May 2019 3
  • The end of a very long day!
  • The main gear back on and Night Fright sat on her wheels
  • The tail back on
  • Rolled out of the hangar for the first time in September 2018
  • Forward bulkheads installed
  • 17 May 2019
  • 18 May 2019 2
  • The new instrument panel installed