I've started on the delayed, yet hopeful, undertaking of restoring the Phoenix 2000 to flying condition following its cart-wheeling crash into the duck pond some while ago.
The wings, which took the brunt of the crash, looked a bit sad with all four mounting points torn out, and the end section of one of the wings snapped off outboard of the flap servo mount. The flaps and ailerons had the hinge screws ripped out, but these should be relatively easy to glue these back in place.
The tail section, on the other hand, is in remarkably good shape and somehow escaped the violent impact unscathed.
So the main concern, along with making sure everything is aligned so it flies straight, is to enure that the wing mounts are securely reattached so the wings stay on!
The nose-section of the Phoenix fuselage is a bit battered, although no worse I think than from its previous big smash. The propellor and spinner are ok, just needing a wash to get the grit out and so the blades can fold freely.
So far there has been nothing that looks unrepairable, so we'll just have to see how things go...
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