David’s STI Build N413KF

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I am going to run both a thread here as well as a log in the EAA Builders Log site since it generates such nice PDFs https://eaabuilderslog.org/?s=KitfoxSTI so here we go:

Ordered my S7 STI at Oshkosh in 2019 (our whole family goes every year I believe my three kids still hold the record for youngest EAA Lifetime Members the oldest who is now 7 became a lifetime member at 6 weeks old and the other two who are 6 and 3 became lifetime members literally the day they were born while still in the hospital ).

My tires were delivered by FedEx on 21 October 2020 which was a surprise when the driver said “hey I just put two giant tires in your garage.” I had no idea they were coming thought it was the wrong address until I saw them.

My kit was delivered by Stewart’s Transport on 22 Oct 2020 I was stuck flying a trip that day that I couldn’t get out of so my wife, father, and my son happily unloaded the kit along with the driver. When they told me freight was 3100.00 to MA I considered going to get it or shipping via another carrier but in the end it was well worth the money to have it shipped by Stewart’s they handled the kit and took their time as if it was their own.

Got home from my trip today (23 October 2020) and spent about a half hour on paperwork replacing Builders Manual pages with updates or corrections as directed by the factory as well as verifying serial number and just opening up boxes and laying out parts so that they can be inventoried tomorrow. So far everything appears to be very well packaged and protected from damage.

I’m waiting on an electrical connection by the power company (could be tomorrow could be 2022 the way they work) as well as final concrete floor being completed on a new 40x65 barn I built as a build area/hangar so In the meantime I’m using half a 3 car garage as my workspace.

I’m leaning towards the Rotax 915is at this point but obviously have a lot of time to make that final decision.

I plan to use Silver Oratex so if anyone wants to buy the poly fiber supplies that are included in the kit let me know.

I included a screen shot of part of my invoice so everyone can see what options I chose for the build.