You may have noticed that N878AC has not been flying for a while. A leak in the fuel tank in the right wing is the reason. Leaks like this are not unheard of in Super Decathlons and might be caused by snap rolls, which is the reason we don’t do those in N878AC. We decided to replace the tank rather than having it repaired.
The wing is off and ready to be worked on 
Wings has come off 
Old fabric and fuel tank has been removed 
Wing installed in the rotisserie for the recovering work
During the tank replacement process, we decided to completely recover the wing with new fabric, rather than just patching the hole which was cut out to replace the tank. As always, things turned out to be more complicated than anticipated and this work took longer than expected. The new full tank is in and other work on the wing has been completed. The wing still needs to be covered with new fabric and painted, but we should have the airplane back flying again in a couple of weeks.
