Since July 2015 lots of effort on several fronts. Air Repair built a new engine. New crankshaft, new production aluminum power case everything new but the nose case and accessory case. Barron Aviation totally rebuilt the fuselage all the fuselage skins with the exception of three undamged 3 originals . The 195 Factory prouduced a new set of wings using new parts and starting from the original spars.

AND HERE ARE THE PICTURES TO PROVE IT!

Amazing!
Thanks for showing!

It's amazing the time and effort required for this kind of project! Can't imagine except by watching Greg C's thread on Tbones and your progress. I thank Cessna engineers for building it tough enough to help protect you two years ago. What a save! It'll be beautiful when you and the kids are done! Can see the finished product already.

It alive!

Well done, it's a classic and with a lessor owner it would have been scrapped. My wife (who couldn't care less about airplanes) always says if we ever buy an airplane it should be a 195, when we see them at fly-ins. She says the other planes are too small and the 195 looks special, even to her.

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Congratulations my friend! Well done! Keep it straight.

Picked up the New engine at AirRepair in Cleveland Mississippi.

"Your going to be Real busy soon"
Did he send a mechanic to install it and the accessories?

If his shop was in SW IN I don't think there is a road dry enough to get that engine to you yet. Wow lots of rain here over the weekend. Pete does amazing work. Now you have to put the puzzle together as you gather the parts form Milton and Barron. Going to be busy bees in Pontotoc soon...

I can't wait to see her when she's finished

It's all ready to go to work!

Speechless. Look up the word "perfection" and these are the photos that appear.

Speechless. Look up the word "perfection" and these are the photos that appear.

We gotta get rid of turbines, they are ruining aviation.

We need to go back to big round engines.

Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to move a switch from "OFF" to "START," and then remember to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start.

Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the pilots are not even allowed to do it.

Turbines start by whining for a while, and then give a small lady-like poot and start whining louder.

Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar.

We like that. It's a guy thing. When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but hardly exciting.

Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.

Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a pilot's attention.

There's nothing to fiddle with during the flight.

Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell.

No Aubie, I didn't write this... some old fart like you emailed it to me!