The depressingly long list, like everything else, is a work in progress. I know there are some items I left off, as it was put together very quickly. Some items won't take long at all, some of them represent many days or weeks of work:

I'll update this list as I go. Updated on 11 Feb 07.

• Cockpit
• Instrument Panel
• EFIS remote heading source
• Design installation
• Purchase material
• Fabricate and install tray - fabricated on 7 Mar 04. Still have to prime and install.
• Run wires - completed 14 Mar 04
• Move CDI up below EFIS
• File cutout for course knob - completed 23 Jan 04
• purchase blanking plate for old CDI location - arrived in early Feb 04
• Warning and Caution Lights
• Purchase
• Install
• Install dimmer control
• Intercom
• Have avionics shop extend rear seat mike plugs - completed in early Feb 04
• Install harness
• Wire PTT switches
• Checkout harness
• Fabricate support for end of avionics trays - completed 23 Jan 04
• Paint panel
• Install fixed part of panel
• Purchase new panel and recut without removable portion - completed 02 Jan 05.
• Cigarette Lighter for power for handheld GPS, iPod, etc.
• Purchase
• Install - completed 19 Apr 05
• Cockpit night lighting
• LED flood lights - completed 25 Jan 04
• Goose neck map light - completed 8 Jan 04
• Dimmer control for Garmin GNS-430 & GTX-327 - completed 21 Feb 04
• Dimmer control for engine instruments, CDI, etc
• Rear seat light? - deferred until after first flight
• Rear seat riser
• purchase material
• fabricate
• Aileron trim
• run wires - completed 22 Feb 04
• install servo
• install mechanism from servo to stick (during flight test phase)
• Heating and ventilation
• Heater controls
• Front seat - completed 7 May 05
• Back seat - completes 7 May 05
• Fresh air vents
• Front seat
• Back seat
• Paint cockpit floor
• Cockpit sidewall insulation
• Cockpit storage pockets
• Design
• Purchase material
• Fabricate
• Install
• Firewall insulation
• Purchase
• Install
• Wiring
• pitch trim wires to tail - completed 1 Feb 04
• landing and taxi light wiring - switches, wig-wag, etc - in-fuselage portion completed 28 Feb 04
• fabricate and secure wire bundles
• Forward fuselage
• Forward of firewall
• Under floor
• Canopy
• Remove masking tape residue
• Round edges of Plexiglas
• Enlarge holes in Plexiglas
• Inspect for scratches and polish them out if required
• rivet canopy skirt
• layer of FG over rivets
• fill and sand canopy skirt
• paint canopy skirt - completed 26 Sep 04
• Canopy latch
• Windscreen
• Trim at bottom
• drill holes
• install
• FG/carbon fibre around windscreen
• Purchase
• Fabricate
• Sand and Fill
• Paint
• Install
• Engine Installation
• Engine cooling plenum
• Purchase material
• Install
• Seal to cowl at front
• Flexible Hoses
• Pressure Test
• Install - 95% complete
• Oil Cooler Door Control
• Design
• Fabricate
• Install
• Alternator bracket
• Secure various hoses, wire bundles, etc
• Alternate air
• Install door
• install control - completed 10 Apr 05
• Electronic ignition
• Run power wires
• Mount coils
• Put holes in baffle
• Run ignition wires
• Set timing
• Magneto
• Run ignition wires
• Set timing
• Inverted Oil System
• Tip Oil Valve back 15 degrees
• Forward fuselage upper skin - rivet in place
• Forward baggage bay door
• Install lock mechanism
• install blocks that locking rods slide into
• rivet door interior
• Fuel Tanks
• Seal Access Covers
• Leak check
• Fibreglas
• Fill and sand
• Empennage tips
• Empennage fairing
• Gear leg fairings
• cowling - 95% complete
• canopy skirt
• wheel pants
• wing tips (after final assembly)
• Spinner
• Gear leg to wheel pant fairings
• Gear leg to fuselage fairings
• Close off multi page snag list
• Final assembly in Hangar
• Install wings
• flaps
• Install
• Check rigging
• ailerons
• Install
• Check rigging
• Run wires in wings
• Pitot heat
• Landing light
• Taxi light
• Coax for Nav antenna
• Coax for Com 2 antenna
• Strobe lights
• Position lights
• Install wing tip antennae
• Nav - antenna installation 90% complete
• Com 2 - antenna installation 90% complete
• Install wing tips - right tip mounted, left tip 75% complete (waiting for final assembly to check alignment of left tip to aileron)
• Install rudder and elevators
• Install fuel tanks
• run fuel gauge wires
• connect fuel lines
• Ground Tests
• Fuel flow test
• Ignition timing
• Electronic ignition
• magneto
• Engine runs
• Com radio check
• EFIS heading cal
• mag compass swing
• RV Flight Training
• Taxi tests
• brakes
• steering
• Admin items
• Reserve registration marks - C-GNHK reserved
• Certificate of registration
• Final inspection
• Airworthiness certificate
• Insurance
• Paint Aircraft