Steady Progress.

Things have been happening since Christmas tied us all up. Our fuselage had a few redirections from San Juan as did the outer wings.
It was finally decided to ship from San Juan to Jacksonville, Florida then trans ship to Savannah in Georgia. After some discussion and negotiations it was agreed to road freight across to the West Coast, then on to a ship direct to Sydney, but two separate shipments!
Finally the outer wings made it to a ship after some time 'resting' dock side and finally arrived in Sydney on 15th February. The fuselage is following closely, (two weeks behind), and due in Port first week in March.

After arranging escorted shipment of wings direct from the Dock after quarantine clearance and by generous support from a local Newcastle firm, Daracon Group, we were advised on Monday that this could not go ahead. the outer wings were cleared, but not the timber form work encasing them. The timber had not been stamped with fumigation verification from departure port!

After some to and froing between here USA and San Juan, we were asked to ship the the wings from the dock to the Quarantine in Sydenham, Sydney for fumigation etc.. Meanwhile, certification papers were sent from o/seas, but to no avail. The timber has to be fumigated.

We have now been informed that the consignment will be ready for collection Friday, so hopefully will be right for escorted transport early Saturday morning, (between 1 & 5am).

The centre wing assembly, still in San Juan, is hopefully being despatched within the next week, AFTER ascertaining that all fumigation paperwork has been done and all timber has the necessary visible markings to pass Quarantine when it arrives here in Australia.

Stay tuned.