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When your helicopter wins Grand Champion at Oshkosh, the RV-7 better keep up. We were proud to paint Noel Durkeson’s RV-7 to match his award-winning helicopter—bringing championship-level style to a new airframe!
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RV7 To Match Grand Champion Winning Helicopter
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Fulltron did a good job of helping with the design and doing a quality paint job. But the most impressive part is the prep work that they did. I didn't build it and when I brought the airplane to them it had lots of cosmetic issues, including the canopy not fitting, the wheel pants and gear legs not being put on right, fairings with issues, some places with bumpy skin from being bent and then bent back but not right bad fiberglass work, etc. The crew at Fulltron went well above my expectations in fixing these issues. They specialize in RVs and their staff has built several.
The airplane ran out of its condition inspection while it was there and they did that inspection for me too. When I came to pick it up, the A&P that signed off the inspection walked me through the inspection check list before he signed it. He collected all of the applicable ADs for the certified parts and all of the applicable service bulletins from Van's, and explained if anything needed to be done and if so how he dealt with them.
Fulltron Aviation
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Thank you for the kind words, Noel! We appreciate the opportunity to work on your RV as well as the trust and patience you put in us.
Would you please stop posting these because every time you do I want a new paint job. Nice job, that looks really good!
It looks great, with one flaw I can't unsee. The lower edge of the canopy skirt bumps down the edge of the blue paint section and really looks out-of-place.
The blue edge should have been aligned with the edge of the skirt, or a white strip is needed on the bottom of the skirt to make that blue line flow again... Could easily do that with a piece of vinyl.
The blue edge should have been aligned with the edge of the skirt, or a white strip is needed on the bottom of the skirt to make that blue line flow again... Could easily do that with a piece of vinyl.
