Eric Greenwell wrote:
I'd start with a call to the USA dealer.

Been done... BA and Blanik want a repair plan to review. They can't
provide one for us, but will gladly let us pay $$ to develop one that
may or may not satisfy them. We are trying to decide whether to total
the ship for full insurance value, or accept a payment from the
insurance that we don't yet know will cover the repair costs. The
repair plan is on our dime, so once we find out the insurance would not
cover the repair, we are already out the $1500 or so for generating the
proposal.

Our A&P has peeled back the skin around the bent spar and it is indeed
creased significantly, so Bob K's intial suggestions have been
followed.

At the moment it seems the last suggestion of Bob's is the only cost
effective way to repait the ship. Find someone willing to work for
pennies per hour to do what looks like a very fiddly repair. Agree
with Bob about apparent excess inventory of bent L-23 wings.

-Tom