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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display

1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – 2014 SSA Convention Display

    Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...

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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air

1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air

Here is the final transition from ugly duckling to a beautiful soaring bird.  The left image shows it in the paint shop after the initial coat of  insignia white had been sprayed to provide the base f...

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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild

1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild

    Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...

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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Fuselage Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Fuselage Rebuild
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Fuselage Rebuild
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1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Fuselage Rebuild

    Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...

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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
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1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started

These are all the parts it takes to put the fuselage back together again other than the frame.  At this point I hadn’t taken the fabric off the wings yet so the few moving parts in them are not includ...

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  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Pick Up
  • 1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Pick Up
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1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Pick Up

To establish a baseline for the project here are pictures (top) of what the sailplane looked like when it was purchased by my father in November 1962 for $256 after it had crashed when owned by the Sa...

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1-26A Restoration by Andy By Andy Kecskes

This website is a description of  the restoration of a Schweizer 1-26A (N3865A) single place sailplane started in December 2009.  The project was completed in February 2014, the paperwork completed wi...

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1-26 Image Gallery Archive

If you’d like more information about what happened to the “Old Gallery”, please see the following blog post: Hey Admin, where is the old image gallery? Id you would like to download all of the image f...

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Hey Admin, where is the old image gallery?

Hello 1-26 Association Members, As you know, the 1-26 Association website went through a major overhaul. One of the tasks was to ensure that image gallery made it to the new website. This website howe...

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  • 1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum
  • 1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum
  • 1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum
  • 1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum

1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum

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