a brand-new interior, with flame-retardent, washable, imitation leather.  I'm very satisfied with the quality of the interior work, which was done by Buchanan Aviation, Concord, CA.  However, Mike Oakes, the owner, also promised me a "field upgrade" or STC "club seating" conversion as part of the negotiated deal, and then failed to deliver it.
	a first "annual" (the first as an owned plane after ten years or so of being a rental), which included:

	repair work on hidden damage to one of the landing gears
	a remote oil-cooler was installed
	fuel-pump was overhauled
	new vacuum pump
	new electronic engine monitor (Insight EGT)
	some new skins to replace heavily patched ones
	new fuel drain cover
	new Gil battery and ELT battery
	new Piper "ram-horn" yokes to replace the cracked "bowtie" yokes
	new Hartzell 3-blade CS propeller (replacing a 2-blade propeller)

 

a brand-new custom-designed avionics panel, which includes:

	Garmin GNS 530
	Garmin GNS 430
	Sandel 3308 Electronic HSI/RMI
	Garmin GI-106A VOR Indicator
	2.5" Electric Backup Attitude Indicator
	Aerosonic 20K Altimeter
	PAI-700 Vertical Card Compass
	S-Tec/Meggit System-55X Autopilot with GPSS
	BFG WX-500 Stormscope
	Ryan 9900B TCAD (Traffic Collision Avoidance Device)
	PS Engineering PS-7000MS Stereo Audio Panel & Intercom
	Flightcom DVI 300 - electronic clock & cockpit recorder
	AM/FM/CD Player
	Avion Research Instrument Panel, custom cut & painted
	completely new wiring harness throughout the plane

The avionics panel was designed and installed by ASB Avionics; I'm happy with the quality of their work, though they managed to stretch the time out a bit with "emergency" work on other planes.

Here are some "before", "during", and "after" pictures of the avionics upgrade.

A custom-designed paint job. From Feb to May, 2002, the plane was stripped, repaired, restored, and custom-painted.  The complete story of N4184R's paint job is on another page.

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Alan K. Stebbens Flying Website - Last updated: 04/13/2003