Process

Out to the airframe, and back again.

The green in the photographs below is zinc chromate primer on bare structure. It is the only honest place to start a cabin again.

  1. Survey

    What is actually in the aircraft, its condition, and what the owner wants from the next hundred hours in it.

  2. Concept

    Layout, palette and materials resolved on paper and in samples, against the cabin's real dimensions.

  3. Removal

    Seats, soft goods, headliner, sidewalls and carpet out, and catalogued.

  4. Build

    Foam profiles, upholstery, cabinetry and veneer in the shop.

  5. Reinstallation

    Refitted with the owner's approved maintenance organisation.

From the Piper PA‑46 Malibu

The cabin stripped back to structure: bare green zinc-chromate airframe and floor beams exposed below the window line. Refit in progress: foil-faced insulation blankets pinned to the fuselage frames below the cabin window. The original seats stripped out and stacked on the workshop bench beside new white leather sections. A finished seat in protective film: white leather with diamond-quilted stitch across squab and backrest.

Photographs of completed work on a Piper PA‑46 Malibu.

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