Build time

[neville]

I picked my kit ( including wing pre-build and pre-fab option), up at the factory Sept 10th 2012. As I send this I am installing the windshield and will then do weight and balance and request an inspection. I average 8 hr
per day, 6 days a week. This includes a 912iS firewall forward kit.

[cap01]

Neville , that's the way it has to be done or the plane will never be completed . I pretty much finished mine the same way .
oak harbor was the first place I flew to once I completed my 40 hrs . I spent three years up there in a vp outfit and learned to fly at the oak harbor airport

[n85ae]

The infamous question:

First one about 2 years, and 2000 hours. I was single.

Number 2 going on ten years with a lot to do. Family and kids.

[jiott]

2 years and 2400 hours for a first build.

Jim

[Danh]

Wow you guys rock, maybe I should retire and just build!

[Flybyjim]

Thanks to all of you with your response on the build time. As I have pondered your comments and I would like to have this bird in the air in two years it appears with my situation I should order the quick build wings. I am still working and will be for a few more years, this activity of building and flying is my outlet from the day to day business. This is not my first plane project and I am always reminded when I read the term quick build, nothing about building a plane is quick. I love the journey and the process. Thanks again and look forward to gaining info from this group over the next couple of years during the build.

[n85ae]

If I were building another Kitfox I would build the wings myself. Although the
Quickbuild wings were nice, and were acceptably well built. There was some
detail work which I would have done better, and I'm not sure in the grand
scheme of things that they save more than a few weeks time ... Which in the
build as a whole is not that much time.

I did end up cutting free at least one rib, and rebonding it as my trailing edge
was 1/4" out of straight. This was done by the Old Skystar so maybe the QC
is better now with John's company.

Jeff