Building a Vagabond: Part 1

"The Piper PA-15 Vagabond was the first post-World War II Piper aircraft design, utilising the same production tooling that created the famous Piper Cub and Super Cub, as well as structural components, but used to make a new wing (generally similar to that on the Piper Cub, except shorter) and a new fuselage (with side-by-side seating for two instead of tandem seating for two). This allowed the aircraft to be built with minimal design and development costs, and is credited with saving the company from bankruptcy after the war. The Vagabond was later superseded by the Pacer, Tri-Pacer and Colt, which are all in fact variations of the Vagabond design." -Wikipedia

A project being built by Roger and Jim at my local airport. It's fun to see the progress made on every visit, and I look forward to seeing it fly when it's all said and done.

Control surfaces, doped and patched, hanging to dry.

A wing, cable assembly completed, awaits it's skin.

Fuselage

More to come as the project continues.....