This aircraft has been the current HAWK build project for about 2 years, and is nearing completion. Project Manager Pat Wheling (retired career pilot with NOAA) has begun discussions with a DAR(Designated Airworthiness Representative) from Denver regarding paperwork and documentation for this project with multiple builders in its history. It came to HAWK after initial assembly by students of the Aeronautical Engineering Dept at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. HAWK has changed the motor from a Continental to a Rotax, and repaired transport damage to one wing and the tail, and modified the fuel tanks and flight controls and finished a myriad of items for completion. With its Dedalus gravity-slat STOL wings, it will be a fun plane to fly when finished, perhaps by year-end.
Courtesy & © John Caldwell
Pat Wehling has put in countless hours managing this project.
Courtesy Bruce Erickson, Tim Allen, Photographer
Pat Wehling has put in countless hours managing this project.
Courtesy Bruce Erickson, Tim Allen, Photographer