![]() ![]() Sand down existing paint and prepare surfaces for painting with prescribed materials from maintenance manual.Remove doors and all inspections covers.Take off elevators, ailerons, flaps and rudder.First day in the paint shop – all decals removed AAS has been around for many decades and before they started maintaining business aircraft and a long time before they became an official Cirrus Service Center they were a very well known and successful Beechcraft dealer.Īfter a meeting with Markus Poeschel (AAS piston engine manager), André Westphal (the AAS maintenance manager) and the Robert Lemke who is in charge of the paint shop we decided to go with the Platinum paint scheme from 2012 in Cirrus “Snow White” and “Sterling Silver”. After looking at many photos I decided to get the airplane repainted in the winter of 2022 and I reserved a slot in the paint shop of my local Cirrus Service Center, “Augsburg Air Service”. The one design I always liked was the 2012 version of the Platinum paint scheme in silver/blue, silver/red and silver/white. Also: While the airplane looks perfect in these photos it has many scratches, dents in the wings and some heat damage on the cowling coming from the exhaust.Ģ022-2023 – Repaint at AAS, Augsburg Air Service ![]() I really liked that “intermediate design” a lot and I flew the airplane like this for 1.5 years until I realized that I wanted a complete remake. It produced a nice glitter in direct sunlight and looks light gray in the shade The new tail logo was designed by my designer wife Nicola and made from “Diamond Silver” foil by Avery. We first invented some designs that looked more technical but in end I decided for the nice “handwritten” logo she had come up with. The new logo on the tail was created by my designer wife. A car wrapping shop cut out all the stripes and they also put them on after I had thoroughly cleaned the fuselage.Of course the shapes were anything but perfect but we improved all the lines in Adobe Illustrator and saved the resulting vectors as an.Then I glued all the different parts on a big piece of paper and let a copy shop nearby scan the whole thing in 100%. ![]() Cut out the shapes and transferred them to cheap plastic foil.Put transparent paper over the stripe and copy the shape with a pencil.We replaced the damaged chrome stripes with new ones cut out from high quality chrome foil (Avery “Diamond Silver”) but it was a lot of work to copy the shape of the original stripe. After trying several tools (and scratching the paint in several places…) I bought a plastic blade on amazon, which worked much better than a steel one, especially in combination with heating up the decals with a hair dryer. The chrome stripes and also the logo on the tail had faded and were also damaged in some parts, so i decided to take them off and replace the chrome parts of the design (only). In 2021 I took the original design to the next change. It just looks nicer and all that stuff costs little money. I mostly use flat black ORACAL car/outdoor foil and I prefer individual letters on a carrier foil and not prints on transparent foil. And today you can simply upload the files to online shops and they make the decals for you. ![]() You make photos, take measurements and make them in Photoshop, Illustrator or any similar design app (Corel Draw, InDesign). It is easy to replace these technical decals. Over time I also replaced many of the technical decals on the airplane with higher quality ones: NO PUSH, NO STEP, DO NOT PUSH, and all the small decals on the airplane that have faded over time or were damaged otherwise. Over the years I improved many of the little graphical details: Is started with removing the old fashioned “CIRRUS” logo on the cowling and replacing it with a custom designed “CIRRUS, GENERATION TWO” and the Cirrus logo, similar to what Cirrus used on the G3 model. I always thought the “SR22 GTS” logo on the tail was ugly. First of all i did not care much about the 2006 graphics. The first change after I bought the airplane was to replace the cowling decalsīut I was never completely happy with the exterior. Over the years I have improved many technical aspects of the plane, including a complete set of new avionics, a new interior, Beringer brakes, the 4-blade prop. By that time the airplane was almost 7 years old and in pretty good condition. I bought my SR22-G2 GTS in the June of 2013. ![]()
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