Cessna R182 SN 329
This airplane is in good original shape. It came
to us with original Nav/Comms, Transponder, Autopilot, and ADF. Through the years, a Garmin GPS 150, JPI-800
engine monitor, and PS Engineering 4-place intercom were added. The owner has had new paint and interior
refubished, and now looking to complete the package with a new avionics
suite. We
are removing all the old ARC equipment, GPS 150 and intercom and are
installing a Sandel SN3500, Garmin GNS530 with GI-106, Garmin AT SL-30,
Garmin GTX-327, Garmin GMA-347 Audio
Panel with 4 place intercom, and S-Tec System 55X autopilot with new
Mid-Continent compass system. We are also removing the pilots
instrument panel and replacing it with a new custom one from AVID
Distributors. The Copilots panel will get the air-driven instruments
from the pilots
panel (since all the new instruments are electrically driven) and we
are moving some things around to make the flight deck more
'pilot friendly'. We are installing light rings for all the
instruments. We will also fix anything we find wrong, i.e
deteriorated ducting, poor wire routing (anything that we AREN'T
replacing). I have already pulled almost 10 pounds of wiring out and
over 30 pounds of old avionics.
Update- May 06 2006 - Well we have the avionics stack built up and the harness built up and laid in the instrument panel. All servos are installed for the STEC 55X. The static ports for the altitude sensor are also installed. We are relocating the EDM-800 from the pilots panel to the bottom of the stack. So now we are replacing the engine thermocouple harness with a new one as there was no slack to reuse the existing harness. With such a large installation we are bound to run into a few snags. We also found out that the company that was going to cut our panel no longer does it, so we are looking for another source. While we have everything out the owner is going to install new soundproofing on the firewall, under the carpet and along the fuselage, getting rid of all the old Cessna Fiberglas stuff. We are also going to install power points at all 4 positions for his Headsets Inc ANR headphones so no more 9V batteries!!
Update - May 08 2006 - Found Bevin-Rabell in ICT to do our panel. We heve seen some of their work on another 182 on our field and it looks top notch.
"Before" pictures
"After" pictures
Pictures of Isulation Installation
Update- May 06 2006 - Well we have the avionics stack built up and the harness built up and laid in the instrument panel. All servos are installed for the STEC 55X. The static ports for the altitude sensor are also installed. We are relocating the EDM-800 from the pilots panel to the bottom of the stack. So now we are replacing the engine thermocouple harness with a new one as there was no slack to reuse the existing harness. With such a large installation we are bound to run into a few snags. We also found out that the company that was going to cut our panel no longer does it, so we are looking for another source. While we have everything out the owner is going to install new soundproofing on the firewall, under the carpet and along the fuselage, getting rid of all the old Cessna Fiberglas stuff. We are also going to install power points at all 4 positions for his Headsets Inc ANR headphones so no more 9V batteries!!
Update - May 08 2006 - Found Bevin-Rabell in ICT to do our panel. We heve seen some of their work on another 182 on our field and it looks top notch.
"Before" pictures
"After" pictures
Pictures of Isulation Installation