Current Projects

Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis"

In July 2011 we completed a replica of the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" for the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon using blueprints and pictures to recreate this airplane. The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. The original is hanging in the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Officially known as the Ryan NYP (for New York to Paris), the single-engine monoplane was designed by Donald A. Hall of the aircraft manufacturer Ryan Airlines located in San Diego, California. To save design time the NYP was loosely based on the company's 1926 Ryan M-2 mail-plane with the main difference being the 4,000 mile range of the NYP.

Hang Global Hawk & Firebee

Customer - Hoffman Construction Company and Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR
Partnering with Reed Rigging, Inc, Chicago, IL and Pacific Engineering and Design, PLLC. Wenatchee, WA

As part of an ongoing reorganization of the exhibits we have been contracted to hang or rehang upward of 20 aircraft and satellites on display at the museum. We began with the Global Hawk and Firebee. Before we could hang the two unmanned surveillance aircraft we had to make room for them by lowering 2 banners, 2 satellites and all of their rigging and turn them over to Evergreen Staff.

To start the process of installing the Global Hawk we had to locate the attach points on the building for the rigging from the engineering drawings provided by Pacific Engineering.

When we had installed the Global Hawk rigging attach points we attached the permanent rigging bridles and lifting equipment. We used our lifting system to assist Evergreen personnel in the reassembly process. Once the Global Hawk was assembled we attached the lifting rigging. We lifted the Global Hawk to the display altitude and attitude and reviewed with customer. With his approval, we measured, fabricated and attached the permanent rigging.

With the Global Hawk complete we moved our equipment to the display location for Firebee and repeated the process. We installed the rigging attach points, permanent rigging bridles and lifting equipment and lifted the Firebee into position. Again, we reviewed display altitude and attitude with customer. With the customer's approval, we measured and fabricated the final bridles and attached the permanent rigging.