Ceconite Wings Question

Montblack wrote:

What Kyle was saying about costs - What's a guess on the material cost (only)
for redoing a fabric covered airplane? How much of that college tuition level
price tag is material vs. labor?

A pre-sewn Ceconite envelope for a Citrabia will set you back $487 at Aircraft
Spruce. You will also need tools, cement, and a silver coat dope sold by Randolph for
the Ceconite system. The dope and cement will set you back about $150. The final
finish can be either Butyrate dope or Polyurethane. Costs vary on that. The full
cost, not counting tools, will come in around $800 for that plane.

To give you an idea of the labor costs, Maule Flight quoted me a price of $12,000 to
recover and paint my aircraft. Only the fuselage and rudder are fabric-covered on
that. Aircraft Spruce does not sell an envelope for my plane (the fabric is glued on
in sections on the MX-7), but the envelope for an earlier model Maule is less than
$230.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.