The International Cessna 170 Association

Still pulling out hay bails!!! Had to emprovise special tools to get way back in the wings!!

Damaged skin, aileron spar removed. I have a donor wing that will supply the replacement stringers. I will have to make the aileron spar and skins from flat stock.

The madness continues!! MGM should consult with me if they ever decide to do a remake of the Wizard of Oz!! I've got PLENTY of straw to make all the scarecrows they wish!! Lol. This planes only visible physical damage was the right wingtip. It was caught in a windstorm and the left tie down snapped ...

Thanks Arash. I hope I can give it the second life it deserves. The bonus is maybe, Just maybe, there's someone who has a project that needs some love and my endeavor will motivate then to take the next step and blow the dust off the tools and get started again. I'll admit....I have a bit of a Lazer...

Drilled off the rivets into the next bay to clean out the mess and asses condition. It looks horrible...... but really not that bad once cleaned up. All salvageable. Will post pics of it cleaned up soon.

Horizontal stabilizer center section lower skin off. Skin is toast but spars look good. Will clean up tmro and asses.

I'm hoping I won't need one. Got the center section skin off and of course it'll need replacement. But so far, the spars look great!!! Thanks to gravity.....the urine only effected the lower skins and doesn't look like migrated to the spar itself. Gonna clean it up tmro.

Never a good sign when you can easily poke a screwdriver through a corrosion spot. This Is the bottom side, center section of the horizontal stabilizer. Drilling off panel now. Stay tuned.

Lower rib removed. Was able to get most of the straw out of this bay. The one above it had a little as well I had to fish out. Pressure washed it al thoroughly and thankfully, it appears that MOST of the damage was limited to the rib. The spars look great!! Whew. Dodged a bullet here. "Might&qu...

Ok........vertical and horizontal stabilizers removed. This is looking at the bottom of the vertical stabilizer. Oblivious that birds made nests in there......but this damage is surely from rat/mouse urine. Birds typically don't pee and poop in their nests so..... drilling out rib now to see how far...

Dang.

Awwwww......not such a beautiful thang. The intersection where the vertical stabilizer meets the horizontal stabilizer. Pulled the acces panel and was greeted with this ominous sight. Remember....the rudder was not on the plane for years and the rudder spar has all those inviting perfectly bird size...

Ahhhhhhh...... a beautiful thang. All freshly re-skinned flaps, ailerons, rudder, and elevators!

Question......does anybody know a better way to re-size pictures for the forum without cropping half the picture out?! I see on the post worksheet there is a tad that says "resizeimg" But I can't get it to do anything.

Clean up begins. There was literally a 1/2 solid layer of bird poop on the cabin floor and engine!!