||| |—|—| | | | Every time the phone rings I think-and hope-it’s the shop calling to tell me the annual inspection is done and I can come retrieve my airplane.
The shop was very good about telling me whenever it ran into problems like a cracked ELT case or stabilator tips that had been stop-drilled one too many times. Two weeks ago I got a call advising me the annual was almost done, that there had been no surprises and that the airplane should be finished early the following week. I began to call in favors for a ferry flight to get to the airport where the annual was being conducted.
